Women with a thirst for destruction : the bad mother in Russian culture / Jenny Kaminer.

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]

viii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.

Sacrifice subverted : the bad mothers of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and L. Tolstoy -- "Her life's sacrifice" : the abandoning mother as positive role model in the Soviet 1920s -- "Mother-destroyers" : the bad mother in the late-Soviet and post-Soviet era.