Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman

Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor in History and works at the Department of Gender Studies and the Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet social history, gender equality politics and decolonial perspective on history of Soviet emancipation of non-Russian women and racism. Gradskova is the author of more than 40 articles and co-author and co-editor of several books, including Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions – the Nordic Council,  Sweden, Lithuania and Russia (Brill, 2017 – with E. Blomberg, Y. Waldemarson and A. Zvinkliene); Institutionalizing gender equality – Global and Historical Perspective (Lexington books, 2015 – with S. Sanders); And They Lived Happily Ever After? Norms and Everyday Practices of Family and Parenthood in Russia and Eastern Europe (Budapest: CEU Press, 2012 – with H. Carlbäck and Zh.Kravchenko).

• Soviet Emancipation and Modernization: The “Secondhand Time”.- Imperial politics and the women’s question in the beginning of the 20th century (the Volga-Ural region, Muslim women and beyond).- Revolutions of 1917 and the Bolshevik Reforms of the status of woman.- Informing change: “Total Hopelessness” of the Past and the “Bright Future” of the “Woman of the East” in Soviet Pamphlets.- Everyday Work for Emancipation of Natsionalka :The VTsIK Commission.- Managing the Change.- Documenting” and Visualizing  Change in Soviet Silent Films.- Bolshevik emancipation of natsionalka between “East” and “West”.- Soviet Politics of Emancipation in Post-Soviet Present.