Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes of prostitutes themselves, state regulation, societal reactions, and attempts at reform. She finds that prostitution and its regulation were integral to Russia's structures of gender, class, and politics.The first historian from outside the former Soviet Union to be granted access to these archival materials on prostitution, Bernstein takes the reader to the streets of Russia's cities, to the state-licensed brothels, medical clinics, hospital ward...
Female prostitution in early modern Istanbul was transformed from a local moral concern into an issu...
The February revolution of 1917 brought about the complete collapse of the tsarist autocracy and off...
After ten years of Reichstag debate, the 1927 German Law to Combat Venereal Disease (RGBG) replaced ...
Caroli Dorena. Laurie Bernstein, Sonia's Daughters. Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Rus...
This thesis examines the social history of female urban prostitution in the final years of the Russi...
Fyodor Dostoevsky\u27s celebrated novel Crime and Punishment (1866) exposes complex moral issues tes...
In August 1911, three men wrote to the Riga authorities denouncing a young peasant woman, Galiuta Ro...
Prostitution flourished during Russia’s First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of m...
The article is devoted to the study of quantitative and quality indicators of female prostitution in...
The early twentieth century was the apogee of what historians have come to call a `white slavery' pa...
In 1986, the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya pravda printed an article titled “Nina of Minsk” detaili...
Prostitution flourished during Russia's First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of m...
Historians of the Russian Empire often question the extent to which a public sphere existed in Tsari...
The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s...
This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these ...
Female prostitution in early modern Istanbul was transformed from a local moral concern into an issu...
The February revolution of 1917 brought about the complete collapse of the tsarist autocracy and off...
After ten years of Reichstag debate, the 1927 German Law to Combat Venereal Disease (RGBG) replaced ...
Caroli Dorena. Laurie Bernstein, Sonia's Daughters. Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Rus...
This thesis examines the social history of female urban prostitution in the final years of the Russi...
Fyodor Dostoevsky\u27s celebrated novel Crime and Punishment (1866) exposes complex moral issues tes...
In August 1911, three men wrote to the Riga authorities denouncing a young peasant woman, Galiuta Ro...
Prostitution flourished during Russia’s First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of m...
The article is devoted to the study of quantitative and quality indicators of female prostitution in...
The early twentieth century was the apogee of what historians have come to call a `white slavery' pa...
In 1986, the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya pravda printed an article titled “Nina of Minsk” detaili...
Prostitution flourished during Russia's First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of m...
Historians of the Russian Empire often question the extent to which a public sphere existed in Tsari...
The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s...
This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these ...
Female prostitution in early modern Istanbul was transformed from a local moral concern into an issu...
The February revolution of 1917 brought about the complete collapse of the tsarist autocracy and off...
After ten years of Reichstag debate, the 1927 German Law to Combat Venereal Disease (RGBG) replaced ...