Ilic Melanie, Reid Susan E., Attwood Lynne (eds.) Women in the Khrushchev Era

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 254 p. — ISBN 1–4039–2043–5.This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the eraNotes on the Contributors
Glossary of Russian Terms and AbbreviationsMelanie Ilicˇ
Women in the Khrushchev Era: an Overview
Melanie Ilicˇ
Women Workers in the Khrushchev Era
Donald Filtzer
Women and Girls in the Virgin Lands
Michaela Pohl
‘Loose Girls’ on the Loose?: Sex, Propaganda and the Youth Festival
Kristin Roth-Ey
Mothers and Fathers and the Problem of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period
Deborah A. Field
Reconstruction or Reproduction? Mothers and the Great Soviet Family in Cinema after Stalin
John Haynes
Monitored Selves: Soviet Women’s Autobiographical Texts in the Khrushchev Era
Marianne Liljeström
Women in the Home
Susan E. Reid
Housing in the Khrushchev Era
Lynne Attwood
Demystifying the Heavens: Women, Religion and Khrushchev’s Anti-religious Campaign, 1954–64
Irina Paert
The Cold War and the Cosmos: Valentina Tereshkova and the First Woman’s Space Flight
Sue Bridger
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