1st Edition
Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich picture of how women experienced repression in the former Soviet bloc. Although focusing on key years when repression was at its height – 1937 for the Soviet Union, 1941 for Lithuania... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Women’s Experiences of 1937: Everyday Legacies of the Purges and the Great Terror in the Soviet Union
3. Victims and Collective Trauma: Surviving Mass Repression and Living through the Soviet period
4. Women’s Experiences of Repression in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968
5. Women’s Experiences of 1956: Student Protesters and Partisans in Romania
Biography
Kelly Hignett is a Senior Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University
Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History at Vilnius University
Corina Snitar is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow
Eszter Zsofia Toth is in the Research Institute for History, Budapest
