Women in the Stalin Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Melanie Ilič

   Pages 1-8

3. ‘Born in October’: the Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil’evna Artyukhina, 1889–1969

   • Carmen Scheide

   Pages 9-28

4. Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power

   • Lynne Attwood

   Pages 29-48

5. Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930–39

   • Choi Chatterjee

   Pages 49-68

6. Babas at the Bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s

   • Wendy Goldman

   Pages 69-88

7. ‘A Mother’s Cares’: Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–41

   • Sarah Davies

   Pages 89-109

8. Traktoristka: Representations and Realities

   • Melanie Ilič

   Pages 110-130

9. Women in the Gulag in the 1930s

   • Emma Mason

   Pages 131-150

10. The Untold Story of the Obshchestvennitsa in the 1930s

    • Mary Buckley

    Pages 151-172

11. Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion?

    • Rosalind Marsh

    Pages 173-193

12. The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art

    • Susan E. Reid

    Pages 194-215

13. Women’s Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 1941–50

    • Susanne Conze

    Pages 216-234

14. Back Matter

    Pages 235-256

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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.

• gender
• history
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Stalin
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• women

• Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK

  Melanie Ilič

• Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

  Melanie Ilič

LYNNE ATTWOOD Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Manchester MARY BUCKLEY Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway College, University of London CHOI CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles SUSANNE CONZE Researcher in Women's History in the Stalin Period SARAH DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of Durham WENDY GOLDMAN Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University ROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, University of Bath EMMA MASON PhD Student, Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham SUSAN REID Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of Sheffield CARMEN SCHEIDE Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, University of Basel

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