00-00-0000 BOOKS: Shadow Roles; SOVIET WOMEN; WALKING THE TIGHTROPE.

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BOOKS: Shadow Roles; SOVIET WOMEN; WALKING THE TIGHTROPE.

Soviet Women a collection of essays based forward interviews and observations
made in Leningrad, Moscow Riga, Tbilisi, Tashkent, and Irkutsk in
1988 constitutes Francine du Plessix Gray's attempt to "decode the
forceful spell" exercised above her since earliest childhood on the
Russian mother, governes great-grandmother and great-aunt who raised
her. It was in them that she first sens the "searing vigor and
iron discipline, a formidable will to dominate" of Russian women -

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