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Life Stories of Soviet Women

This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often in elite positions, and therefore well able to observe and articulate the wider conditions for Soviet women besides their own personal circumstances. The interviews, which are edited and preceded by a full introduction setting the context, touch on a wide variety of issues: key events in Soviet history; religion and nationalities policies; and womens everyday experiences of life in the Soviet Union growing up and going to school; education; falling in love and getting married; giving birth and starting a family; housework and paid employment; travel; leisure and culture; and remembering the past.

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

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Life Stories of Soviet Women
The interwar generation
Melanie Ilic

Life Stories of Soviet
Women

The interwar generation

Melanie Ilic

First published 2013
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 Melanie Ilic

The right of Melanie Ilic to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ilic, Melanie, author.

Life stories of Soviet women: the interwar generation/Melanie Ilic.
pages cm. (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe; 16)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Women Soviet Union Biography. 2. Families Soviet Union. 3. Soviet Union Social conditions 19451991.
I. Title. II. Series: Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe; 16.
DK37.2.I45 2013
920.72 dc23
[B]
2013004123

ISBN: 978-0-415-81469-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-79648-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

Contents

apparat	(Communist Party) organisation
aspirantura	postgraduate studentship
avtorskie svidetelstva	authors certification
babushki	old women
banya public	bathhouse
chastushki	humorous folk verses; rhyming poems set to music
chelovek	person
chulki v rezinochku	elasticated tights
CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
dacha	summer house
Decembrists	name given to the December 1825 rebels against Tsar Nicholas I
dobrovolets	volunteer
gimnaziya	grammar school
glasnost	(Gorbachevs policy of) openness
Gosplan	State Planning Commission
Internat	International school, for children of diplomats
Ispolkom	ispolnitelnyi komitet; executive committee (of the local soviet)
Izvestiya	News (the official government newspaper and publishing house)
kapustnik	gathering of friends with readings of comic verses; sketch show
kartochki	ration cards
kasha	buckwheat porridge
KGB	Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; Committee of State Security
khozraschet	profit and loss accounting
Kobeta	Woman (Polish womens magazine)
kolkhoz	collective farm
komandirovka	business trip
komandnyi punkt	command post
kommunalnaya kvartira	communal apartment
Komsomol	League of Young Communists
Komsomolskaya pravda	Komsomol Truth (newspaper of the Komsomol)
Krestyanka	Peasant Woman (Russian/Soviet womens magazine)
kulak	wealthy peasant
kvass	a refreshing drink, usually made in the summer from black bread
limitchiki	migrant workers
Memorial	Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society, officially founded in 1991

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