This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

List of Tables List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations Introduction; M.Ilic 'Born in October': The Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil'eva Artyukhina, 1889-1969; C.Scheide Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa ('The Woman Worker') in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power; L.Attwood Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930-39; C.Chatterjee Babas (women) at the bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s; W.Goldman 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41; S.Davies Traktoristka (female tractor driver): Representations and Realities; M.Ilic Women in the Gulag in the 1930s; E.Mason The Untold Story of Obshchestvennitsa (women volunteers) in the 1930s; M.Buckley Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion; R.Marsh The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art; S.E.Reid Women's Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 194-50; S.Conze Select Bibliography Index

LYNNE ATTWOOD Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Manchester
MARY BUCKLEY Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway College, University of London
CHOI CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles
SUSANNE CONZE Researcher in Women's History in the Stalin Period
SARAH DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of Durham
WENDY GOLDMAN Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
ROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, University of Bath
EMMA MASON PhD Student, Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
SUSAN REID Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of Sheffield
CARMEN SCHEIDE Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, University of Basel