caa a22 4500 386373310 CHVBK 20180307112006.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020859000009238 doi S0020859000009238 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020859000009238 Fieseler Beate The Making of Russian Female Social Democrats, 1890-1917 [Elektronische Daten] [Beate Fieseler] The social composition of female RSDRP members (who constituted between 11% and 15% of the total party membership) prior to 1917 is analyzed using prosopographic methods. The analysis reveals that women social democrats tended to come from higher social classes, and to have a higher educational attainment, and professional occupations. Thus, it is misleading to characterize the RSDRP as a "workers' party”, for only its male contingent was composed mostly of workers. The analysis of the process of radicalization reveals the cultural barriers whioch these women had to overcome before they would join the party. Breaking free from their role in society meant, for them, leading fuller lives as women and an oppurtunity to dedicate themselves to the people. Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1989 International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/2(1989-08), 193-226 0020-8590 34:2<193 1989 34 ISH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000009238 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fieseler Beate NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of Social History Cambridge University Press 34/2(1989-08), 193-226 0020-8590 34:2<193 1989 34 ISH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge