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The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

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Editors:
  1. Melanie Ilic

    1. School of Liberal and Performing Arts, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

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  • Draws on a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to Russian Studies
  • Focuses on the shifts and developments in gender identities and roles in the recent history of Russian and Soviet Union
  • Expands the scope of study beyond the typically covered urban centres of Moscow and St Petersburg
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Melanie Ilic
    Pages 1-6

  3. Russian Revolutionary as American Celebrity: A Case Study of Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya

    • Alison Rowley
    Pages 7-23

  4. Vera Zasulich: The Legacy of a Female Terrorist

    • Szilvia Nagy
    Pages 25-40

  5. Sophia on the Street: Boulevard Literature Denies the Divine

    • Erin Katherine Krafft
    Pages 41-54

  6. On the Eve: Gender, Historiography and the Prelude to Revolution

    • Barbara Alpern Engel
    Pages 55-68

  7. Gender and Family in the Russian Revolutionary Movement

    • Katy Turton
    Pages 69-82

  8. The Kitchen Maid as Revolutionary Symbol: Paid Domestic Labour and the Emancipation of Soviet Women, 1917–1941

    • Alissa Klots
    Pages 83-100

  9. ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’: Women’s Wages in Soviet Russia

    • Melanie Ilic
    Pages 101-115

  10. Emancipation at the Crossroads Between the ‘Woman Question’ and the ‘National Question’

    • Yulia Gradskova
    Pages 117-131

  11. Babushka, Harlot, Helper, Joker: Women and Gender in 1930s Political Humour

    • Jonathan Waterlow
    Pages 133-148

  12. The Daily Life of Russian Peasant Women

    • Liubov Denisova
    Pages 149-165

  13. Memory and History: Korean Women’s Experiences of Repression During the Stalin Era

    • Junbae Jo
    Pages 167-181

  14. Travelling Memory and Memory of Travel in Estonian Women’s Deportation Stories

    • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
    Pages 183-198

  15. Heroism in the Frame: Gender‚ Nationality and Propaganda in Tashkent and Moscow‚ 1924–1945

    • Elizabeth Waters
    Pages 199-216

  16. ‘The Motherland Calls’: Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945

    • Roger D. Markwick
    Pages 217-232

  17. ‘Unstintingly Master Warfare’: Women in the Red Army

    • Carmen Scheide
    Pages 233-248

  18. Nurses in the Soviet Union: Explorations of Gender in State and Society

    • Susan Grant
    Pages 249-265

  19. Soviet Female Experts in the Polar Regions

    • E. Kalemeneva, J. Lajus
    Pages 267-283

  20. Women and Girls in the Post-Stalin Komsomol

    • Robert Hornsby
    Pages 285-298
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About this book

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and gender relations in the Soviet ‘East’ (Tatarstan), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Within the boundaries of the Russian Federation, the scope moves beyond the typically studied urban centres of Moscow and St Petersburg to examine the regions (Krasnodar, Novosibirsk), rural societies and village life. Its chapters examine the construction of gender identities and shifts in gender roles during the twentieth century, as well as the changing status and roles of women vis-a-vis men in Soviet political institutions, the workplaceand society more generally. 


 This volume draws on a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches currently being employed in the academic field of Russian studies. The origins of the individual contributions can be identified in a range of conventional subject disciplines – history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies – but the chapters also adopt a cross- and inter-disciplinary approach to the topic of study. This handbook therefore builds on and extends the foundations of Russian women’s and gender studies as it has emerged and developed in recent decades, and demonstrate the international, indeed global, reach of such research



Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Liberal and Performing Arts, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

    Melanie Ilic

About the editor

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

  • Editors: Melanie Ilic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54905-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54904-4Published: 12 January 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54905-1Published: 30 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 560

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History, Gender Studies, History of Modern Europe, Culture and Gender

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