Women in the Khrushchev Era

by Ilic, Melanie; Reid, Susan E.; Attwood, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9781403920430
• ISBN10: 1403920435
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of essays examines women in the Krushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era.

Author Biography

Melanie Ilic is Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, Women's History and Womenbliog’s Studies. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, the University of Birmingham.

Susan Reid is Lecturer in Russian Visual Arts at the University of Sheffield.

Lynne Attwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on the Contributors	x
Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Melanie Ilic
Women in the Khrushchev Era: an Overview	5	(24)
Melanie Ilic
Women Workers in the Khrushchev Era	29	(23)
Donald Filtzer
Women and Girls in the Virgin Lands	52	(23)
Michaela Pohl
`Loose Girls' on the Loose?: Sex, Propaganda and the 1957 Youth Festival	75	(21)
Kristin Roth-Ey
Mothers and Fathers and the Problem of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period	96	(18)
Deborah A. Field
Reconstruction or Reproduction? Mothers and the Great Soviet Family in Cinema after Stalin	114	(17)
John Haynes
Monitored Selves: Soviet Women's Autobiographical Texts in the Khrushchev Era	131	(18)
Marianne Liljestrom
Women in the Home	149	(28)
Susan E. Reid
Housing in the Khrushchev Era	177	(26)
Lynne Attwood
Demystifying the Heavens: Women, Religion and Khrushchev's Anti-religious Campaign, 1954-64	203	(19)
Irina Paert
The Cold War and the Cosmos: Valentina Tereshkova and the First Woman's Space Flight	222	(16)
Sue Bridger
Select Bibliography	238	(11)
Index	249