The reforms of the 1860s, which created new social mobility, led to the emergence of the women's movement in Russia. Initially, its participants advocated for improving the lives of women within the framework of contemporary Russian society, without setting themselves the goal of changing it. However, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a feminist movement emerged from the women's movement, consistently criticizing the prevailing gender attitudes in society. In her book, Irina Yukina distinguishes two stages in the history of the women's movement and examines the relationships of continuity between them, showing how a unified ideological space for women's struggle for their rights was formed in Russia. Drawing on theoretical approaches from the sociology of social movements, the tools of intellectual history and gender studies, the author analyzes the origins of the Russian women's movement, its goals, ideology, and the fates of its key participants. This book is the second, supplemented and updated edition. Irina Yukina is a historian and sociologist, PhD in sociology.