Love of Worker Bees - Brossura

Kollontai, Alexandra

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0897330013 ISBN 13: 9780897330015

Casa editrice: Chicago Review Pr, 2005

Riassunto

A rare, graphic portrait of Russian life in 1917 immediately after the October Revolution. The heroine struggles with her passion for her husband, and the demands of the new world in which she lives.

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L'autore:

Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a leading member of the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution and the foremost Marxist theoretician of women's oppression and sexuality. She was a founding member of the Women's Bureau of the Communist Party.Cathy Porter has published biographies of the Russianwomen revolutionaries Alexandra Kollontai and Larissa Reisner, as well as books about women terrorists of the 1860s, Russia's 1905 revolution, and the Battle of Moscow. She has translated more than thirty books and works for the stage, including plays by Gorky and the Czech Karel Capek. She lives in Oxford.Sheila Rowbotham is a Sociology Research Fellow at Manchester University in England.

Product Description:

"Love of Worker Bees" first appeared in 1923, and it consists of a remarkable novel and two striking short stories, written by the most famous and gifted Russian woman of the twentieth century. The novel is both a moving love story and a rare graphic portrait of Russian life after the October revolution in 1917. The heroine, Vasilia struggles to come to terms with her passionate love for her husband and the new world that is coming into being around her. The two stories provide more poignant and fascinating insights into the situation of women.

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• Editore: Chicago Review Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0897330013
• ISBN 13: 9780897330015
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232