Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Leinarte, Dalia. author.

Title Adopting and remembering Soviet reality : life stories of Lithuanian women, 1945-1970 / editor and author Dalia Leinarte
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series On the boundary of two worlds, 1570-7121 ; 24
On the boundary of two worlds ; 24.
Contents pt. 1. Conducting interviews in the post-Soviet space -- pt. 2. Women, work, and family in Soviet Lithuania -- pt. 3. LIfe stories of Lithuanian women
Summary For millions of people, the Soviet experience meant not only living through the torment of Stalinism and the GULAG, the unbelievable destiny of men and women during the 1917 Revolution, civil war, and the Second World War, or those breathtaking, gigantic Socialist construction projects. Many citizens of the former Soviet Union lived "ordinary lives in ordinary times", where the fate of men and women depended not on armed coercion, but Soviet ideology and propaganda. Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality contains the stories of ten women, talking about their lives in Soviet Lithuania, one of the annexed Baltic republics. The book gives a compelling account of how, in the last years of Stalin's rule, after 1945, during the so-called "Khrushchev Thaw", and in the beginning of the "Stagnation Era", Soviet ideology transfused the everyday life of women and dictated just about every major aspect of their lives. Based on interviews, the journalistic press of that era, as well as other material, the book reveals how propaganda shaped women's understanding of family and work responsibilities, child care, interpersonal relationships, romantic love, and friendship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-244) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Description based on online resource; title from website (Overdrive, viewed May 22, 2023)
Subject Women -- Lithuania -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Social conditions
Women
Vrouwen.
SUBJECT Lithuania -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077639
Subject Lithuania
Litouwen.
Genre/Form Biographies
Biografieën (vorm)
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789042030633
9042030631
9781282792845
1282792849
9786612792847
6612792841