Stalinism on the frontier of empire : women and state formation in the Soviet Far East / Elena Shulman.

By:

Shulman, Elena, 1969- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511497131
051149713X
9780511457623
0511457626
9780511456312
051145631X
9786611944940
661194494X
9781107405004
1107405009
9780511451553
0511451555

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stalinism on the frontier of empire.DDC classification:

305.48/89171057709043 22 22

LOC classification:

HQ1665.15.Z8 F378 2008eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Women and Soviet power -- "Where steel cracks like glass" -- "Our famous Valia": the rise of a Soviet notable -- "Envy for everything heroic": women volunteering for the frontier -- "Bol'shevichki were never ascetics!": female morale and Communist morality -- Snivelers and patriots -- Conclusion.

Summary: "This is a fascinating account of frontier Stalinism told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural dominion in the region. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage, and films, shed new light on Soviet women's roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in structuring gender ideals, and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these narratives, Elena Shulman offers a nuanced and complex picture of the "subcultures" of Stalinism--generational, regional, and semi-criminal--as well as the complexities of women's lives under Stalin and the limits of Moscow's rule over the periphery and even the Gulag."--Publisher's description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.

"This is a fascinating account of frontier Stalinism told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural dominion in the region. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage, and films, shed new light on Soviet women's roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in structuring gender ideals, and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these narratives, Elena Shulman offers a nuanced and complex picture of the "subcultures" of Stalinism--generational, regional, and semi-criminal--as well as the complexities of women's lives under Stalin and the limits of Moscow's rule over the periphery and even the Gulag."--Publisher's description