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In this wide-ranging and insightful work, Soma Marik defends the legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution, arguing against many of its detractors that the early communist regime was centrally concerned with both the liberation of women and the expansion of democracy.
Soma Marik teaches Women's Studies and History at Jadavpur University.
Price: $22.00
Pages: 560
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date:
03 April 2018
Trim Size: 8.75 X 5.75 in
ISBN: 9781608467297
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, European history, Political structures / systems: democracy
Soma Marik: Soma Marik is Reader in History, Ramakrishna Sandra Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, and also teaches Women's Studies and History in Jadavpur University. She was educated in South Point School and Jadavpur University. She is involved as an activist in the women's movement, through the Nari Nirjatan Pratirodh Mancha(Kolkata), and the network Maitree, as well as with general democratic and anti-communal work. She has published extensively on class and gender relations in socialist and communist history.