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Only after the Revolution of 1905 did any real shift in the status of women take place in Russia. Women who, apart from housework, undertook hours of work in the fields, were considered second-class members of the peasant household. Domostroi, Russia’s first book of manners published in the sixteenth century, which concerns itself with ‘the management of the household’ said that wife-beating was a necessity and a virtue.
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Paxton, J. (2001). Social and Economic Progress. In: Imperial Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598720_9
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