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CELEBRATING WOMEN
GENDER, FESTIVAL CULTURE AND BOLSHEVIK IDEOLOGY, 1910-1939 |
| By: |
Choi Chatterjee |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£28.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822941783 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822941781 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2002 |
| Series: |
Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
An analysis of both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day in Russia and the early Soviet Union to demonstrate the ways in which these celebrations were a strategic form of cultural practice that articulated the Soviet construction of gender. |
| Synopsis: |
The first International Women's Day was celebrated in Copenhagen in 1910 and was adopted by the Bolsheviks in 1913 as a means to popularize their political program among factory women in Russia. By 1939, Women's Day had joined May Day and the anniversary of the October Revolution as the most important national holidays on the calendar. This is an analysis of both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day in Russia and the early Soviet Union to demonstrate the ways in which these celebrations were a strategic form of cultural practice that marked the distinctiveness of Soviet civilization, legitimized the Soviet mission for women and articulated the Soviet construction of gender. Through the years, Women's Day celebrations temporarily empowered women as they sang revolutionary songs, acted as strong protagonists in plays, and marched in processions carrying slogans about gender equality. In speeches, state policies, reports, historical sketches, plays, cartoons, and short stories, the passive Russian woman was transformed into an iconic Soviet Woman who could survive, improvise and prevail over the most challenging of circumstances. |
| Illustrations: |
8 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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