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Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia book cover

1st Edition

Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia

By David L. Hoffmann Copyright 2026
178 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women’s roles in society. Chapters of this book explore Bolshevik activists’ ideals of women’s liberation and their failure to realize these ideals; the significance of... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Gender and Women’s Roles

1 The Soviet Gender Order and the Elusiveness of Women’s Equality

2 Women’s Work and the Gendered Division of Labor during the Stalinist Era

3 Mothers in the Motherland: Stalinist Pronatalism in its Pan-European Context

4 Representations of Gender in Soviet War Memorials

Part II Ideology and Culture

5. Socialist Ideology, State Interventionism, and Soviet Governance in Its International Context

6. Was There a “Great Retreat” From Soviet Socialism? Stalinist Culture Reconsidered

Index

Biography

David L. Hoffmann is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of four previous monographs—Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941 (1994); Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity (2003); Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism (2011); and The Stalinist Era (2018). He also edited Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices (2000); Stalinism: The Essential Readings (2002); and The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (2022).

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