1st Edition

Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 and Poland, 1948 for Czechoslovakia and 1956 for Romania – the book ranges more widely. It demonstrates that although far fewer women than men were the direct victims of repression, women experienced severe repression in many ways, including exile, deportation and as family members of those arrested, imprisoned and executed.

    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