In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition, and in no other country of the world did women constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. Women at the Gates is the story of a world remade when women entered the waged labor force in unprecedented numbers.
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"Goldman's excellent book is a valuable reference for scholars and students alike." The Russian Review
"Goldman presents a well-crafted, well-researched portrayal of women's roles in Soviet industrial development. It makes a contribution to our understanding of women's role in Soviet society and Soviet industrial development and can be used as a supplementary text in Russian history or women's studies' courses." History
"...this is a fine book. Its story is interesting, original, and important. Diligently researched, carefully presented, and excellently written, it deserves to be widely read." Autumn 2002
"This excellent study...is an engaging work that will interest both Russian specialists and those interested in women's issues." Canadian Slavonic Papers
"Goldman contributes to a deepening picture of Soviet life..." American Historical Review
"Goldman draws on an impressive amount of archival research to demonstrate the role of the party, government planning officials, women activists, and factory managers in promoting the participation of women in industrial production....Goldman's work is less convincing in its attempts to explain the contradictions in Soviet gender policy....Nonetheless, Goldman's book is an important and well-researched contribution to the social history of women during Soviet industrialization." Slavic Review
"Goldman presents a well-crafted, well-researched portrayal of women's roles in Soviet industrial development. It makes a contribution to our understanding of women's role in Soviet society and Soviet industrial development and can be used as a supplementary text in Russian history or women's studies' courses." History
"...this is a fine book. Its story is interesting, original, and important. Diligently researched, carefully presented, and excellently written, it deserves to be widely read." Autumn 2002
"This excellent study...is an engaging work that will interest both Russian specialists and those interested in women's issues." Canadian Slavonic Papers
"Goldman contributes to a deepening picture of Soviet life..." American Historical Review
"Goldman draws on an impressive amount of archival research to demonstrate the role of the party, government planning officials, women activists, and factory managers in promoting the participation of women in industrial production....Goldman's work is less convincing in its attempts to explain the contradictions in Soviet gender policy....Nonetheless, Goldman's book is an important and well-researched contribution to the social history of women during Soviet industrialization." Slavic Review
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In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition, and in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. Women at the Gates is the story of a world remade, from above and from below, as women entered waged labor in unprecedented numbers.
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At the end of the 1920s, a poor peasant woman named Zaminskaia was abandoned by her husband. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zhenskii aktiv, regendering strategy, trudovom fronte, socialized dining, local labor departments, local zhenotdels, planovom fronte, new women workers, deploying women, rationalization committees, cadre departments, novyi byt, waged labor force, public dining halls, incoming workers, economic organs, labor exchanges, bread cards, factory committees, work among women, seasonal industries, female labor, mechanical shop, waged workers, labor officials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Soviet Union, Central Executive Committee, Krasnyi Putilovets, Zhenskii Trud, Rabote Sredi Zhenshchin, World War, Byta Rabotnits, Cornell University Press, Cambridge University Press, Narodnoe Khoziaistvo, Oxford University Press, Commissariat of Labor, Council of People's Commissars, Number Percent, Piatiletnii Plan, Supreme Council of the National Economy, University of California Press, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, Indiana University Press, Povyshenie Real'noi Zarplaty, Soiuz Zheleznodorozhnikov, Commissariat of Enlightenment, Harvard University Press, International Women's Day New!
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At the end of the 1920s, a poor peasant woman named Zaminskaia was abandoned by her husband. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
zhenskii aktiv, regendering strategy, trudovom fronte, socialized dining, local labor departments, local zhenotdels, planovom fronte, new women workers, deploying women, rationalization committees, cadre departments, novyi byt, waged labor force, public dining halls, incoming workers, economic organs, labor exchanges, bread cards, factory committees, work among women, seasonal industries, female labor, mechanical shop, waged workers, labor officials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Soviet Union, Central Executive Committee, Krasnyi Putilovets, Zhenskii Trud, Rabote Sredi Zhenshchin, World War, Byta Rabotnits, Cornell University Press, Cambridge University Press, Narodnoe Khoziaistvo, Oxford University Press, Commissariat of Labor, Council of People's Commissars, Number Percent, Piatiletnii Plan, Supreme Council of the National Economy, University of California Press, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, Indiana University Press, Povyshenie Real'noi Zarplaty, Soiuz Zheleznodorozhnikov, Commissariat of Enlightenment, Harvard University Press, International Women's Day New!
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- Gender and Class in Modern Europe by Laura Levine Frader on 4 pages
- SOVIET UNION 2E CL/ DAVIES by Davies in Front Matter, page 70, and page 81
- The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia by Elizabeth A. Wood on page 3, page 33, and Back Matter
- Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by William G. Rosenberg in Front Matter, page 35, and page 140
- North Carolina by Nancy Millichap Davies on page 35, and page 70
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- Women in Russia, 1700-2000 by Barbara Alpern Engel on page 173, and page 185
- Women in the Stalin Era (Studies in Russian and East European History) by Melanie Ilic in Front Matter, and page 87
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