American Girls in Red Russia Chasing the Soviet Dream

• Main Author: Mickenberg, Julia L. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2017
• Subjects: Humanities; History of the Americas; History of other lands; Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: general; america; united states; russian; soviet union; 1920s; 1930s; travel; immigration; escape; siberia; lost generation; 20th century; contemporary; modern; women; feminism; girls; isadora duncan; lillian hellman; radical; experiment; equality; revolutionary; history; historical; men; patriarchy; divorce; rights; property; benefits; maternity; childcare; sexual; economic; social
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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...