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.
List of Tables List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations Introduction; M.Ilic 'Born in October': The Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil'eva Artyukhina, 1889-1969; C.Scheide Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa ('The Woman Worker') in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power; L.Attwood Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930-39; C.Chatterjee Babas (women) at the bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s; W.Goldman 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41; S.Davies Traktoristka (female tractor driver): Representations and Realities; M.Ilic Women in the Gulag in the 1930s; E.Mason The Untold Story of Obshchestvennitsa (women volunteers) in the 1930s; M.Buckley Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion; R.Marsh The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art; S.E.Reid Women's Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 194-50; S.Conze Select Bibliography Index
