Title Creating the new Soviet woman : women's magazines as engineers of female identity, 1922-53 / Lynne Attwood

Published New York : St. Martin's Press in association with Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (v, 213 pages) Series Studies in Russian and East European history and society Studies in Russian and East European history and society. Contents Introduction -- PART I: THE WOMEN'S MAGAZINES IN THE ERA OF THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY -- Work Versus Family -- Marriage, Divorce, and Unwanted Pregnancy -- The Promotion of New Gender Relations -- Variations in the 'New Woman' -- PART II: THE STALIN ERA -- Women's Experience of Industrialisation and Collectivisation -- Overfulfilling the Plan -- Home Life -- Compulsory Motherhood: the 1936 Abortion Law -- Gender Confusion in the Stalin Era: 'Completely New People', or Traditional Wives and Mothers? -- Women in the Great Patriotic War -- The Postwar Era -- Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index Summary The 'new Soviet person' the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a qualitatively different type to that which existed under capitalism: a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society. Both men and women would play a full role in the construction of socialism, but the model of the ̀new woman' had an additional feature - she also had to reproduce the population. Balancing work and family did not prove easy, especially against the background of shifting economic and demographic priorities, and periodic changes had to be made. This book explores the ways in which the 'new woman', in her various incarnations, was presented to female citizens from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era in the pages of the popular women's magazines, Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker) and Krest'yanka (The Peasant Woman) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Rabotnit︠s︡a (Moscow, Russia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016103723 Krestʹi︠a︡nka. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016103684 Rabotnit︠s︡a (Moscow, Russia) fast Subject Women -- Soviet Union -- Identity Women's periodicals, Russian. Women -- Soviet Union -- History Sex role -- Soviet Union -- History Sex role Women Women -- Identity Women's periodicals, Russian Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Alexander Baykov Library (University of Birmingham) Palgrave Connect (Online service) ISBN 9780333981825 0333981820

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