Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman Natsionalka

This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gradskova, Yulia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Soviet Emancipation and Modernization: The “Secondhand Time”
  • Imperial politics and the women’s question in the beginning of the 20th century (the Volga-Ural region, Muslim women and beyond)
  • Revolutions of 1917 and the Bolshevik Reforms of the status of woman
  • Informing change: “Total Hopelessness” of the Past and the “Bright Future” of the “Woman of the East” in Soviet Pamphlets
  • Everyday Work for Emancipation of Natsionalka :The VTsIK Commission
  • Managing the Change
  • Documenting” and Visualizing Change in Soviet Silent Films
  • Bolshevik emancipation of natsionalka between “East” and “West”
  • Soviet Politics of Emancipation in Post-Soviet Present