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Woman with a movie camera [my life as a Russian filmmaker] / by Goldovskai͡a, Marina Evseevna

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The life of a Russian woman doctor a Siberian memoir, 1869-1954 / by Bek, Anna Nikolaevna

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Allah's angels Chechen women in war / by Murphy, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Mat ogni : the traditional Chechen woman -- Welcome to hell! -- The pain continues -- Baking bread -- The sisterhood -- Mountains of bodies -- I'm not who you think I am -- Rising from the ashes -- Saving Pompeii.…”
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Russia's sputnik generation Soviet baby boomers talk about their lives /

Table of Contents: “…. -- "Our entire generation welcomed perestroika" / Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko -- "I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives" / Natalia Aleksandrovna Belovolova -- "It's very hard to be a woman in our country" / Olga Vladimirovna Kamaiurova -- "I came to understand things, but only gradually" / Aleksandr Vladimirovich Trubnikov -- "People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow" / Gennadii Viktorovich Ivanov.…”
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Through alien eyes a view of America and intercultural marriages / by Popova, Elena, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…, or images of Russians -- Demons she fights : the adjustment period -- The show must go on -- Watch you language -- To execute or to pardon? -- A woman at the door -- The competition of congregations, or which Christian is more of a Christian? …”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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