This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed
Women in the Stalin Era
β Scribed by Melanie IliΔ (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 270
- Series
- Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
βBorn in Octoberβ: the Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasilβevna Artyukhina, 1889β1969....Pages 9-28
Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power....Pages 29-48
Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930β39....Pages 49-68
Babas at the Bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s....Pages 69-88
βA Motherβs Caresβ: Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalinβs Russia, 1934β41....Pages 89-109
Traktoristka: Representations and Realities....Pages 110-130
Women in the Gulag in the 1930s....Pages 131-150
The Untold Story of the Obshchestvennitsa in the 1930s....Pages 151-172
Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion?....Pages 173-193
The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art....Pages 194-215
Womenβs Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 1941β50....Pages 216-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-256
β¦ Subjects
Russian, Soviet, and East European History; Clinical Psychology; European History; Gender Studies; Arts
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