The trying time : survival crises and political dilemmas under Soviet occupation -- Constructing power : women and the political program of the Socialist Unity Party -- Forging the female proletarian : women workers, production, and the culture of the shop floor -- Restoring fertility : reproduction under the wings of mother state -- Reforming taste : public services, private desires, and domestic labor -- Reconstituting the family : domestic relations between tradition and change -- Modernization and its discontents : society, the state, and gender policy in the 1960s -- Slouching toward Bethlehem