Violent movements opposing existing political orders erupted throughout nineteenth-century Europe, but nowhere was this revolutionary impulse made more dramatically visible than in Russia. Five Sisters - first published in 1975 - presents English translations of the memoirs of five of Russia's most renowned female revolutionaries - Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Praskovia Ivanovskaia, Olga Liubatovich, and Elizaveta Kovalskaia. Engel and Rosenthal have added a new introduction and an updated list of suggested readings. A welcome reboot of a widely read classic, students and specialists of Russian history and women's studies will find this collection to be a fascinating record of tumultuous times.

About Barbara Alpern Engel

Barbara Engel is Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Between the Fields and the City, Women in Russia, and most recently, Breaking the Ties that Bound, as well as of numerous articles.
Clifford Rosenthal worked for ten years as a translator of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Subsequently, he led a national association of credit unions serving low-income communities for more than three decades, twice consulting with the Russian credit union movement as a member of an international delegation.

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Sku

CIN0875806902G

ISBN 13

9780875806907

ISBN 10

0875806902

Title

Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar by Barbara Alpern Engel

Author

Barbara Alpern Engel

Series

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Year published

20130315

Number of pages

212

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