Creating the new Soviet woman: women's magazines as engineers of female identity, 1922 - 53

"The 'new Soviet person' the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a qualitatively different type to that which existed under capitalism: a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society." "This book explores the ways in whic...

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Main Author: Attwood, Lynne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [u.a.] Macmillan [u.a.] 1999
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Studies in Russian and East European history and society
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Summary:"The 'new Soviet person' the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a qualitatively different type to that which existed under capitalism: a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society." "This book explores the ways in which the 'new woman', in her various incarnations, was presented to female citizens from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era in the pages of the popular women's magazines, Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker) and Krest'yanka (The Peasant Woman)."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:V, 213 S.
ISBN:033377275X
031222544X

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