The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

1. Introduction
Melanie Ilic

2. Russian Revolutionary as American Celebrity: A Case Study of Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya
Alison Rowley

3. Vera Zasulich: The Legacy of a Female Terrorist
Szilvia Nagy

4. Sophia on the Street: Boulevard Literature Denies the Divine
Erin Katherine Krafft

5. On the Eve: Gender, Historiography and the Prelude to Revolution
Barbara Alpern Engel

6. Gender and Family in the Russian Revolutionary Movement
Katy Turton

7. The Kitchen Maid as Revolutionary Symbol: Paid Domestic Labour and the Emancipation of Soviet Women, 1917–1941
Alissa Klots

8. ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’: Women’s Wages in Soviet Russia
Melanie Ilic

9. Emancipation at the Crossroads Between the ‘Woman Question’ and the ‘National Question’
Yulia Gradskova

10.
Babushka, Harlot, Helper, Joker: Women and Gender in 1930s Political Humour
Jonathan Waterlow

11. The Daily Life of Russian Peasant Women
Liubov Denisova

12. Memory and History: Korean Women’s Experiences of Repression During the Stalin Era
Junbae Jo

13. Travelling Memory and Memory of Travel in Estonian Women’s Deportation Stories
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar

14. Heroism in the Frame: Gender‚ Nationality and Propaganda in Tashkent and Moscow‚ 1924–1945
Elizabeth Waters

15. ‘The Motherland Calls’: Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945
Roger D. Markwick

16. ‘Unstintingly Master Warfare’: Women in the Red Army
Carmen Scheide

17. Nurses in the Soviet Union: Explorations of Gender in State and Society
Susan Grant

18. Soviet Female Experts in the Polar Regions
E. Kalemeneva, J. Lajus

19. Women and Girls in the Post-Stalin Komsomol
Robert Hornsby

20. State Feminism in Soviet Central Asia:Anti-Religious Campaigns and Muslim Women in Tajikistan, 1953–1982
Zamira Yusufjonova-Abman

21. Women’s Social Adaptation Models in Soviet Lithuania
Laima Žilinskienė

22. Man About the House: Male Domesticity and Fatherhood in Soviet Visual Satire Under Khrushchev
Claire E. McCallum

23. Sex Education and the Depiction of Homosexuality Under Khrushchev
Rustam Alexander

24. Women’s Role in the Alternative Culture Movements in Soviet Latvia, 1960–1990
Maija Runcis, Lilita Zalkalns

25. ‘As the Thread Follows the Needle’: The Social Construction of the Prisoner’s Wife in Russia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Elena Katz, Judith Pallot

26. ‘Forced Re-Settlers’ in Post-Soviet Russia: Gender and Age Dimensions of Social Inequality in State Assistance with Permanent Housing
Larisa Kosygina

27. ‘A Woman Isn’t a Woman When She’s not Concerned About the Way She Looks’: Beauty Labour and Femininity in Post-Soviet Russia
Holly Porteous

28. New Russian ‘Macho’ Between Literature and Life
Olga Tabachnikova, Natalia Vinokurova

29.
‘To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth?’: Having Children in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Lynne Attwood, Olga Isupova

30. Recent Russian Press Coverage of Unfree Labour
Mary Buckley

31. Opportunities for Self-Realisation?: Young Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Russia
Ulrike Ziemer

Keywords: History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History, Gender Studies, History of Modern Europe, Culture and Gender