Women in the Stalin Era

Melanie Ilic

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780333779309
• eBook ISBN: 9780230523425
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on the Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 ‘Born in October’: the Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil’evna Artyukhina, 1889–1969
• 2 Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine "Rabotnitsa" in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power
• 3 Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930–39
• 4 Babas at the Bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s
• 5 ‘A Mother’s Cares’: Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–41
• 6 Traktoristka: Representations and Realities
• 7 Women in the Gulag in the 1930s
• 8 The Untold Story of the Obshchestvennitsa in the l930s
• 9 Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion?
• 10 The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art
• 11 Women’s Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 1941–50
• Select Bibliography
• Index