The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives
Title | The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1991 |
Authors | Meyer, Alfred G. |
Editor | Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine D. Worobec |
Book Title | Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation |
Pagination | 208-224 |
Publisher | University of California Press |
City | Berkeley, CA |
Abstract | This book chapter on the impact of World War I on Russian women's lives published in the edited volume Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation explores the changing working und living conditions of women during the war, who had to replace in agriculture, crafts and trade as well as industries all the men mobilized for war. Food and fuel became scarce and needed to be rationed by the government. The antiwar mood grew. Hunger riots and strikes by Russian women started in 1915 and increased 1916. They led in March 1917 first to the Menschewik and then in October 1917 to the Bolschewik Revolution, which hanged the position of women dramatically. The revolution also ended the First World War for Russia, but led to the Civil War, which continued until 1922. |
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