| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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Online access with JISC subscription agreement: ACLS Humanities E-Books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Women and Soviet power -- "Where steel cracks like glass" -- "Our famous Valia": the rise of a Soviet notable -- "Envy for everything heroic": women volunteering for the frontier -- "Bol'shevichki were never ascetics!": female morale and Communist morality -- Snivelers and patriots -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"This is a fascinating account of frontier Stalinism told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural dominion in the region. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage, and films, shed new light on Soviet women's roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in structuring gender ideals, and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these narratives, Elena Shulman offers a nuanced and complex picture of the "subcultures" of Stalinism--generational, regional, and semi-criminal--as well as the complexities of women's lives under Stalin and the limits of Moscow's rule over the periphery and even the Gulag."--Publisher's description. |
| Access |
Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. CaOTR |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East -- History.
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Women. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East. |
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History. |
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Migration, Internal -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Migration, Internal. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Women and socialism -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Women and socialism. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Shulman, Elena, 1969- Stalinism on the frontier of empire. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008 9780521896672 (DLC) 2008020509 (OCoLC)212858942 |
| ISBN |
9780511497131 (electronic book) |
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051149713X (electronic book) |
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9780511457623 (electronic book) |
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0511457626 (electronic book) |
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9780511456312 (electronic book) |
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051145631X (electronic book) |
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9786611944940 |
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661194494X |
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0521896673 (Cloth) |
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9780521896672 (hardback) |
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