Barbara Engel & Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck 
A Revolution Of Their Own [PDF ebook] 
Voices Of Women In Soviet History

The stories of these eight Russian women offer an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era. Some were from the poor peasantry and working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out and who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others, born to ‘misfortune’ as the daughters of nobles