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Creating the New Soviet Woman

Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Lynne Attwood

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 1-19

  3. The 1920s: The Women’s Magazines in the Era of the New Economic Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-30
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    2. Work versus Family

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 31-39

    3. Marriage, Divorce and Unwanted Pregnancy

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 40-51

    4. The Promotion of New Gender Relations

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 52-65

    5. Beauty, Fashion and Femininity

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 66-71

    6. Variations in the ‘New Woman’

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 72-76

  4. The Stalin Era

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-85
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    2. Women’s Experience of Industrialisation and Collectivisation

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 87-96

    3. Overfulfilling the Plan

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 97-103

    4. Home Life

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 104-114

    5. Compulsory Motherhood: The 1936 Abortion Law

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 115-125

    6. Gender Confusion in the Stalin Era: ‘Completely New People’, or Traditional Wives and Mothers?

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 126-135

    7. Women in the Great Patriotic War

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 136-148

    8. The Postwar Era

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 149-167

    9. Conclusion

      • Lynne Attwood
      Pages 168-174

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 175-213
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About this book

This book explores the Soviet attempt to propagandise the 'new Soviet woman' through the magazines Rabotnitsa and Krest'yanka from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era. Balancing work and family did not prove easy in a climate of shifting economic and demographic priorities, and the book charts the periodic changes made to the model.

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  • University of Manchester, UK

    Lynne Attwood

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LYNNE ATTWOOD is Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex-Role Socialisation in the USSR and editor of Red Women in the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era.

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