Women in the Stalin Era

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

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). 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.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.