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Record Nr.

UNISA996248299203316

Autore

Shulman Elena <1969->

Titolo

Stalinism on the frontier of empire : women and state formation in the Soviet Far East / / Elena Shulman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-20174-8

1-281-94494-7

9786611944940

0-511-45631-X

0-511-49713-X

0-511-45762-6

0-511-45463-5

0-511-45360-4

0-511-45566-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

305.48/89171057709043

Soggetti

Women - Russia (Federation) - Russian Far East - History

Migration, Internal - Soviet Union - History

Women and socialism - Soviet Union - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women and Soviet power -- "Where steel cracks like glass" -- "Our famous Valia": the rise of a Soviet notable -- "Envy for everything heroic": women volunteering for the frontier -- "Bol'shevichki were never ascetics!": female morale and Communist morality.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a fascinating account of frontier Stalinism told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural dominion in the region. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage and films, shed new light on Soviet women's roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in



structuring gender ideals and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these narratives Elena Shulman offers a nuanced picture of the world of the frontier as well as the complexities of women's lives under Stalin and the limits of Moscow's rule over the periphery and even the Gulag.