BARBARA EVANS CLEMENTS is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Akron. She is the author and co-editor of several books on Russian women's history, the most recent of which is Bolshevik Women. REBECCA FRIEDMAN is Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami. DAN HEALEY is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: B.E.Clements 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': Changing Models of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia; N.S.Kollmann From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University; R.Friedman Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion; O.Vainshtein Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russian Society; C.D.Worobec Masculinity in Transition: Peasant Migrants to Late Imperial St Petersburg; S.A.Smith Marriage and Masculinity in Late Imperial Russia: The 'Hard Cases': B.A.Engel The Education of the Will: Advice Literature, Zakal, and Manliness in Early Twentieth-Century Russia; C.Kelly The Disappearance of the Russian Queen, or How the Soviet Closet Was Born; D.Healey Masculinity and Heroism in Imperial and Soviet Military-Patriotic Cultures; K.Petrone Socialism in One Gender: Masculine Values in the Stalin Revolution; T.G.Schrand 'If You Want to Be Like Me, Train!': The Contradictions of Soviet Masculinity; J.Gilmour & B.E.Clements Conclusions: R.Friedman & D.Healey Index

'The sheer sweep of its scope and goals are at the root of this pathbreaking collection's accomplishments...' - Abby M. Schrader, Slavic Review '...an extremely interesting study of a hugely important topic. An excellent example of historical scholarship in its own right, it should lay the foundation for further research into Russian, Soviet, and indeed post-Soviet masculinites.' - Graham H.Roberts, University of Surrey, Slavonica