By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women-and women's reactions to these efforts-have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women-and women's reactions to these efforts-have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original

Introduction, Barbara Evans ClementsAccommodation and Resistance, Christine D. WorobecWomen in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through the Fifteenth Centuries, N.L. PushkarevaChildbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions, Eve LevinWomen's Honor in Early Modern Russia, Nancy Shields KollmannThrough the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy, Valerie A. KivelsonWidows and the Russian Serf Community, Rodney D. BohacInfant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire, David L. RanselTransformation versus Tradition, Barbara Alpern EngelThe Peasant Woman as Healer, Rose L. GlickmanWomen's Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900, Judith PallotAbortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates, Laura EngelsteinThe Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives, Alfred G. MeyerThe Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32, Elizabeth WatersWomen, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36, Wendy GoldmanLater Developments: Trends in Soviet Women's History, 1930 to the Present, Barbara Evans Clements