Ilic Melanie (ed.) Women in the Stalin Era

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1349418250; ISBN13: 978-1349418251 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society).
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 in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.Introduction. Melanie Ilic.
‘Born in October’: the Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil’evna Artyukhina, 1889–1969. Carmen Scheide.
Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power. Lynne Attwood.
Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930–39. Choi Chatterjee.
Babas at the Bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s. Wendy Goldman.
‘A Mother’s Cares’: Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–41. Sarah Davies.
Traktoristka: Representations and Realities. Melanie Ilic.
Women in the Gulag in the 1930s. Emma Mason.
The Untold Story of the Obshchestvennitsa in the 1930s. Mary Buckley.
Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion? Rosalind Marsh.
The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art. Susan E. Reid.
Women’s Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 1941–50. Susanne Conze.
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