Introduction / Melanie Ilic -- 1. 'Born in October': the Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil'evna Artyukhina, 1889-1969 / Carmen Scheide -- 2. Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power / Lynne Attwood -- 3. Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930-39 / Choi Chatterjee -- 4. Babas at the Bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s / Wendy Goldman -- 5. 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41 / Sarah Davies -- 6. Traktoristka: Representations and Realities / Melanie Ilic -- 7. Women in the Gulag in the 1930s / Emma Mason -- 8. The Untold Story of the Obshchestvennitsa in the 1930s / Mary Buckley -- 9. Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion? / Rosalind Marsh -- 10. The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art / Susan E. Reid -- 11. Women's Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 1941-50 / Susanne Conze
