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1 online resource (vii, 211 pages) |
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Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe |
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Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Experience as history -- 2 Born in the USSR: Soviet identities -- Self-characterisation of the Soviet woman -- Official identities -- Internal passports -- Names -- 'Ethnic nationality' -- Generational cohorts -- Social status -- CP or not CP -- 3 A happy childhood -- Soviet schooling -- Curriculum content -- 'Always ready' -- Summer camp -- 4 Looking for love -- Sources of knowledge -- Inhibitors -- Places to meet -- Courtship -- Sex before marriage |
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Single women and illegitimate children -- Extra-marital affairs -- Homosexuality -- Nationality issues -- Relationships with foreigners -- Abuse of authority -- 5 Emancipation and equality -- Contemporary reflections on equality -- The domestic division of labour -- Benefits of the Soviet system -- Workplace friction -- Domestic workers -- Evident inequalities -- Attitudes towards female sexuality -- Sexual exploitation -- 6 Health and welfare -- Urban living -- Workplace environments -- Health care services -- Bathing and the banya 92 -- Laundry -- At the Soviet convenience -- Menstruation |
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Food supply, storage and nutrition -- Cigarettes and alcohol -- 7 Reproductive health and maternity -- Attitudes to marriage and motherhood -- Reproductive health -- Abortion -- Maternity wards -- Maternity leave and childcare -- Childrearing -- 8 Consumption, Soviet style -- Status markers -- Street wear -- Dressing for the job -- Footwear -- Regional dress -- Underwear -- Hairstyles -- Cosmetics -- Accessories -- Soviet luxury -- 9 Custom, ritual and superstition before and after 1917 -- Writing about rites -- Customs -- Let's sit down before the trip -- Bitter, bitter, bitter -- Rituals |
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Baptism -- Funerals -- Superstitions -- Fortune telling -- Black cats -- 10 Go West -- Internal travel and tourism -- The near abroad -- Overseas visits and work placements -- Realities of the West -- Emigration -- In lieu of a conclusion -- Appendix 1: Foreign films in the Soviet Union -- Appendix 2: Russian idioms and sayings -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women's accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women's everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. Including testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures and from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the regime and dissidents, the book considers women's daily routines, attitudes and behaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian society, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was the reach' of the Soviet regime; how modern' was it; how far were there continuities after 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia's imperial past; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Melanie Ilic is a Professor of SovietHistory in the School of Education and Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, the University of Birmingham |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Women -- Soviet Union
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Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions
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Women -- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women -- Social life and customs
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Soviet Union
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000033908 |
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1000033902 |
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9780429330117 |
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0429330111 |
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9781000033823 |
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1000033821 |
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9781000033861 |
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1000033864 |
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