Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change

Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development, and Social Change reframes one of the twentieth century’s most sweeping social experiments: the promise—and limits—of Soviet sexual equality. Gail Warshofsky Lapidus moves beyond celebratory claims and simple indictments to offer a developmental account of how women’s roles were mobilized to serve state-building, industrialization, and political consolidation. Anchored in Tocqueville’s “politics of equality” and engaging Marxist, Leninist, and...