Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR

Catherine Baker is Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull, UK. She is the author of The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (Palgrave, 2015).

• Introduction: Gender in 20thCentury Eastern Europe and the USSR; Catherine BakerPART I: BETWEEN THE FIN-DE-SIECLE AND THE INTERWAR PERIOD 1. Czech Motherhood and Fin-de-Siècle Visual Culture; Cynthia Paces2. British-Yugoslav Lesbian Networks During and After the Great War; Olga Dimitrijevi? and Catherine Baker3. Creating 'New Soviet Women' in Armenia? Gender and Tradition in the Early Soviet South Caucasus; Jo Laycock and Jeremy JohnsonPART II: GENDER REGIMES OF REVOLUTION AND WAR 4. Mothers of a New World: Maternity and Culture in the Soviet Period; Jenny Kaminer5. Life and Fate: Race, Nationality, Class, and Gender in Wartime Poland; Katherine R. Jolluck6. Female Red Army Soldiers in World War II and Beyond; Kerstin Bischl7. Soviet Masculinities and Revolution; Erica L. FraserPART III: GENDER POLITICS AND STATE SOCIALIST POWER 8. Gender and Youth Work Actions in Post-War Yugoslavia; Ivan Simi?9. Listing Homosexuals since the 1920s and under State Socialism in Hungary; Judit Takács10. Everyday: Intimate Politics under Communism in Romania; Maria BucurPART IV: GENDER DURING AND AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM 11. Masculinity and Dissidence in Eastern Europe in the 1980s; Anna Muller12. What is Political in Post-Yugoslav Feminist Activism?; Adriana Zaharijevi?13. Gender and Professional Work in Russia and Hungary; Maria Adamson and Erika Kispeter14. Transnational 'LGBT' Politics after the Cold War and Implications for Gender History; Catherine BakerSelect Bibliography.

This volume is recommended to all researchers with an interest in the evolution and history of feminism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet space. It is especially relevant to scholars and students of political science who want to trace feminist ideas and the quest for gender equality in the region. Monika Batham, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 71 (3)” (, )¿