Women in the Khrushchev Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Melanie Ilič

   Pages 1-4

3. Women in the Khrushchev Era: an Overview

   • Melanie Ilič

   Pages 5-28

4. Women Workers in the Khrushchev Era

   • Donald Filtzer

   Pages 29-51

5. Women and Girls in the Virgin Lands

   • Michaela Pohl

   Pages 52-74

6. ’Loose Girls’ on the Loose?: Sex, Propaganda and the 1957 Youth Festival

   • Kristin Roth-Ey

   Pages 75-95

7. Mothers and Fathers and the Problem of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period

   • Deborah A. Field

   Pages 96-113

8. Reconstruction or Reproduction? Mothers and the Great Soviet Family in Cinema after Stalin

   • John Haynes

   Pages 114-130

9. Monitored Selves: Soviet Women’s Autobiographical Texts in the Khrushchev Era

   • Marianne Liljeström

   Pages 131-148

10. Women in the Home

    • Susan E. Reid

    Pages 149-176

11. Housing in the Khrushchev Era

    • Lynne Attwood

    Pages 177-202

12. Demystifying the Heavens: Women, Religion and Khrushchev’s Anti-religious Campaign, 1954–64

    • Irina Paert

    Pages 203-221

13. The Cold War and the Cosmos: Valentina Tereshkova and the First Woman’s Space Flight

    • Sue Bridger

    Pages 222-237

14. Back Matter

    Pages 238-254

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This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era.

• campaign
• cinema
• Cold War
• consumption
• development
• family
• girls
• production
• religion
• reproduction
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
• war
• women
• youth

'This collection vividly illustrates these fortunes in 11 well integrated chapters that offer a fascinating introduction to the subject'. - Dan Healey, European History Quarterly

'These eleven tightly argued chapters go a considerable way to remedy the neglect of both women's experience and the gendered nature of Khrushchev's rule. It is an admirably coherent collection which should encourage further research.' - Jane McDermid, The Slavonic and East European Review

• Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Gloucestershire, UK

  Melanie Ilič

• The University of Birmingham, UK

  Melanie Ilič

• University of Sheffield, UK

  Susan E. Reid

• University of Manchester, UK

  Lynne Attwood

S. BRIDGER Researcher and writer D. A. FIELD Assistant Professor and Chair of the History Department, Adrian College, Michigan, USA D. FILTZER Professor of Russian History, University of East London J. HAYNES Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Essex M. LILJESTRÖM Professor of Women's Studies, University of Turku, Finland I. PAERT Lecturer in European History, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales M. POHL Lecturer, Vassar College, New York, USA K. ROTH-EY Researcher

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