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Women's Roles and Agency in Russian Society Before and During the War in Ukraine tracks Russian societal development and transformation as reflected in women’s experiences, views, and agency. This book explores women's roles in various sectors of Russian society, including the labor market in the 1990s, entrepreneurship, politics, the social sector, and their engagement in civil society. The author employs interviews describing the experiences, views, and agency of Russian women in leading positions in the social services, NGOs, and elsewhere that serve to help vulnerable women. Their stories make visible how women's agency has changed in the face of growing authoritarianism in the region. Their work and position have become more perilous in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine War, and the increased attempts by authorities to cover up and silence social unrest.

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""Based on decades of interviews with Russian women, this book is a detailed, personal account of women’s efforts to make an impact in entrepreneurship, local politics, and social welfare services from the early post-Soviet era to the present, and in the context of an increasingly repressive regime. Sätre finds that the gender division of labor persists inside and outside of the workplace, and that women remain responsible for social welfare and supporting the marginalized. A plethora of individual women’s stories contained in the book provide an unusual glimpse into the inner workings of local social and political systems in cities, towns, and villages far from Russia’s bustling capital."" -- Valerie Sperling, Clark University

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Ann-Mari Sätre is professor of Eurasian studies at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University.

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