Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition

This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women’s movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging story of the women’s movement’s formation and development in a country undergoing a radical economic and political transition from communist rule. Based on extensive interviews with the activists themselves, the book vividly documents the specific challenges facing women’s groups in Russia, including societal attitudes toward feminism, the difficulty of organizing in post-communist countries, and the ways that the international environment has affected the women’s movement.