American girls in red Russia : : chasing the Soviet dream / / Julia L. Mickenberg.
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chicago, [Illinois] ;, London, [England] : : The University of Chicago Press,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (427 pages) :; illustrations, photographs |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: “American Girls in Red Russia”
- PART I. Tender Revolutionaries and Child Savers
- 1. Dreaming in Red
- 2. Child Savers and Child Saviors
- PART II. Living and Working in the New Russia
- 3. “A New Pennsylvania”
- 4. “Eyes on Russia”
- PART III. Performing Revolution
- 5. Dancing Revolution
- 6. Black and White—and Yellow—in Red
- PART IV. Trials, Tribulations, and Battles
- 7. Heroines and Heretics on the Russian Front
- EPILOGUE: Red Spy Queens?
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index