220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Born in the USSR: Soviet Identities
3. A Happy Childhood
4. Looking for Love
5. Emancipation and Equality
6. Health and Welfare
7. Reproductive Health and Maternity
8. Consumption, Soviet Style
9. Custom, Ritual and Superstition
10. Go West
Biography
Melanie Ilic is a Professor of Soviet History 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.
