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In the afternoon of May 10, 1936, over three thousand women convened in the Great Hall of the Moscow Kremlin. Delegates to a nationwide conference, they waited expectantly in their best dress, some seated on a flower-bedecked dais where they were joined by the Soviet Union’s highest-ranking officials, including Stalin himself. For three days, the women were congratulated by these officials and heard testimonials from their fellow delegates. Proceedings were reported in the central organs of the Soviet press and were later published in a handsomely bound volume.1
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For a summary of the most influential works, see Wendy Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 1–58.
Stephen Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1980); and Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Svetlana Boym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), 33–38.
F. M. Rizel’, Zhenshchina na sotsialisticheskoi stroike. Metodrazrabotka dlia kruzhkov polit, ucheby chlenov semei nachsostava (Moscow: NKO SSSR, 1935), 37.
On 1934–1936 as a “breathing space,” see Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov, Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin’s Russia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); and Naum Jasny, Soviet Industrialization, 1928–1952 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961).
Catriona Kelly, Refining Russia: Advice Literature from Catherine to Yeltsin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 22–32.
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Neary, R.B. (2006). Domestic Life and the Activist Wife in the 1930s Soviet Union. In: Siegelbaum, L.H. (eds) Borders of Socialism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8454-8_6
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