Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

• 1. Introduction; Melanie Ilic.- 2. Russian Revolutionary as American Celebrity: a Case Study of Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya; Alison Rowley.- 3.Vera Zasulich: the Legacy of a Female Terrorist; Szilvia Nagy.- Sophia on the Street: Boulevard Literature Denies the Divine; Erin Katherine Krafft.-  4. Sophia on the Street: Boulevard Literature Denies the Divine; Erin Katherine Krafft.- 5. On the Eve; Barbara Alpern Engel.- 6.Gender and Family in the Russian Revolutionary Movement; Katy Turton.- 7. The Kitchen Maid as Revolutionary Symbol: Paid Domestic Labour and the Emancipation of Soviet Women, 1917-1941; Alissa Klots.- 8. 'Equal Pay for Equal Work’: Women’s Wages in Soviet Russia; Melanie Ilic.- 9. Emancipation at the Crossroads Between the ‘Woman Question’ and the ‘National Question’; Yulia Gradskova.- 10. Babushka, Harlot, Helper, Joker: Women and Gender in 1930s Political Humour; Jonathan Waterlow.-11. The Daily Life of Russian Peasant Women in the Twentieth Century; Lyubov Denisova.- 12. Memory and History: Korean Women’s Experiences of Repression during the Stalin Era; Junbae Jo.- 13. Travelling Memory and Memory of Travel in Estonian Women’s Deportation Stories; Leena Kurvet-Käosaar.- 14. Heroism in the Frame: Gender, Nationality and Propaganda in Tashkent and Moscow, 1924-45; Elizabeth Waters.- 15. ‘The Motherland Calls’: Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45; Roger D. Markwick.- 16.‘Unsintingly Master Warfare’: Women in the Red Army; Carmen Scheide.- 17.Nurses in the Soviet Union: Explorations of Gender in State and Society; Susan Grant.- 18. Soviet Female Experts in the Polar Regions; Julia Lajus and Ekaterina Kalemeneva.- 19. Women and Girls in the Post-Stalin Komsomol; Robert Hornsby.- 20. State Feminism in Soviet Central Asia: Anti-Religious Campaigns and Muslim Women in Tajikistan, 1953-82; Zamira Yusufjonova-Abman.- 21. Women’s Social Adaptation Models in Soviet Lithuania; Laima Žilinskienė.- 22. Man About the House: Fatherhood in Soviet Visual Satire under Khrushchev; Claire E. McCallum.- 23. Sex Education and the Depiction of Homosexuality under Khrushchev; Rustam Gadzhiev.- 24. Women’s Role in the Alternative Culture Movement in Soviet Latvia, 1960-1990; Maija Runcis and Lilita Zalkalns.- 25. ‘As the Thread Follows the Needle’: the Social Construction of the Prisoner’s Wife in Russia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century; Elena Katz and Judith Pallot.- 26. ‘Forced Re-Settlers’ in Post-Soviet Russia: Gender and Age Dimensions of Social Inequality in State Assistance with Permanent Housing; Larisa Kosygina.- 27.‘A Woman isn’t a Woman when she’s not Concerned about the Way she Looks’: Beauty Labour and Femininity in Post-Soviet Russia; Holly Porteous.- 28. New Russian ‘Macho’: Between Literature and Life; Natalia Vinokurova and Olga Tabachnikova.- 29. To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth?’ : Having Children in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia; Lynne Attwood with Olga Isupova.- 30. Recent Russian Press Coverage of Unfree Labour; Mary Buckley.- 31.Opportunities for Self-Realisation?: Young Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Russia; Ulrike Ziemer.- Bibliography.- Index.