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What Is To Be Done?, Chernyshevskii, 115, 123

white-collar workers, men as, 275

white-collar workers, women as: 1855–1914, 146–49, 170; 1914–30, 195; 1930–53, 252; 1953–91, 261–62, 263, 271

Whites, 187, 191

widows: authority of, 2, 23; as nuns, 10, 41; as Old Believers, 53; among the poor, 30, 44–45, 102, 107–108, 128, 145; powers of, 6–7, 13, 20, 38, 39, 80. See also authority of women; inheritance law; wives, powers and duties of

wife-beating, 127, 197, 200

Wilmot, Martha, 78

Wilson, Woodrow, 187

Winter Palace Square, 169

witchcraft, xxiv, 41–45, 57

Within the Whirlwind, Ginzburg, 236

wives, powers and duties of: 900–1462, 5–6, 9–10, 18, 20; 1462–1695, 26, 29, 31–34, 35–40, 47–48; 1695–1855, 75, 80, 88–89, 90–91, 94–95, 101–102; 1855–1914, 146, 153, 155, 175; 1914–30, 191; 1930–53, 212, 222–23; 1953–91, 263–64, 274; after 1991, 293, 294. See also authority of women; cult of domesticity; divorce; inheritance law; marriage law; widows

Woman in the Development of Socialist Society, Novikova, 260

woman question. See emancipation of women

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Livzeanu, xxiii Women of the Naval Fleet, 296

Women of Russia Party, 296, 297

women workers. See industrial labor force, women in

Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 172

women’s communities, 160–61. See also convents

Women’s Day March, 158, 182. See also Revolution of 1917

women’s emancipation. See emancipation of women

women’s military movement, 184–85

Women’s Party of Lithuania, 297

Women’s Sniper Training School, 240

women’s spirituality, 1, 106–107. See also Christianity

working-class women: 1855–1914, 134–142; during World War I, 180, 190; in 1917, 183; during civil war, 192, 193; in NEP, 199, 203–204, 208; in 1930s, 212–13, 245–46, 261, 271

World Bank, 294–95

World War I, 114, 192, 193; effects on women of, 182, 195, 245; women during, 180–182

World War II, xv, 236–49, 270, 271; aftermath of, for women, 195, 249–51; chronology of, 236–37; consequences of German occupation during, 247; economic conditions during, 246; effects on family life of, 247–49; and women in the countryside, 246–47; and women in the military, 238–44; and women in the urban labor force, 245–46

Worobec, Christine, xi, 43, 128

writers, women as: 1605–1855, 95–97, 123; 1855–1914, 149, 163; 1930–55, 213; 1955–91, 264, 276–77, 282, 284; after 1991, 301–302

Württenberg, 86

Yakuts, 46, 47, 155, 273; women of, 228, 274, 283

Yanukovich, Victor, 8, 19

Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Officer, and Exile, Bochkareva, 186, 187

Yeltsin, Boris: as leader before 1992, 279, 281; as president, 286, 301, 306, 308

Yushchenko, Victor, 300

Yushko, Liudmila, 311–12

Zaitseva, Julia, 208

Zakharova, Natalia, 283

Zambian United Independence Party, 196

Zaslavskaia, Tatiana, 279–80, 297

Zasulich, Vera, 124, 126

Zavisna, 45

Zemliachka, Rozalia, 230

zemstva, 15, 130, 132, 169, 180; establishment of, 113; and feminists, 123, 171

Zetkin, Klara, 175

zhensovety, 255, 279, 282, 303

Zhukovskii, Vasili, 87, 96

Zhytomyr, 299

Ziolkowski, Margaret, 53–54

Zionist, 153

Zurich University, 119

Zygmunt, King of Poland, 27

About the Author

BARBARA EVANS CLEMENTS was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. She received her B.A. from the University of Richmond and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. From 1971 to 2000, she was a member of the History Department of the University of Akron, where she taught Russian and European history and did research on the history of women in Russia. Some of her publications are listed in this book’s bibliography. After retirement in 2000, she and her husband Jerry Newman moved to Ellensburg, Washington. In 2004, she decided to change her last name to Newman, but to continue using Clements as her professional name.

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