Women and Russia : feminist writings from the Soviet Union

A collection of essays discussing life for women in the Soviet Union. Topics range from family history to accounts of arrests and interrogations by the KGB. Some of the essays are more interesting and better written than others. There are also a few excerpts of poetry included. The commentary

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before each section provided some background into whatever aspect of Soviet life was being discussed; these blurbs were very general and not particularly useful. The essays themselves, on the whole were interesting. At the end of the collection there are short biographies of some of the contributors; these, I think would have been better served by being placed at the beginning of the chapters in lieu of the informational blurbs.

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