Wilson Center Experts
Elizabeth A. Wood
Research Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wilson Center Project(s):
Not by Politics Alone: Gender and State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930
Term:
Jan 01, 1993
Jun 01, 1993
Project Summary
Focuses on the ways in which gender issues play a crucial role in state formation in Soviet Russia through areas relating to the formulation of gender norms, women Party activists criticisms of the New Economic Policy, debates among women concerning the best means to bring working women into the public sphere through labor organizing. Integrates theoretical work with the history of Soviet Russia.