Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia: A Life in the Shadow of Stalin?s Terror

Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia

A Life in the Shadow of Stalin?s Terror
 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Number of Volumes: Hardback
 
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ISBN13:9781350139206
ISBN10:1350139203
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:280 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:572 g
Language:English
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This first-hand witness account - originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time - tells the important story of one woman's persecution under Stalin. From Miklashevskaya's middle-class Jewish childhood in Odessa, to her life in exile as the wife of 'an enemy of the people' and false imprisonment in a labour camp for the attempted murder of NKVD leader Nikolai Yezhov, to her later attempts at rehabilitation, her memoir is a fascinating tapestry of Soviet artistic, intellectual, and political life set against the tumultuous backdrop of revolutions, wars, and repressive regimes.

Accompanied by a translator's introduction and detailed historical explanatory notes, Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia sheds new light on the relationship between power, gender, and society in 20th-century Russia. This book is thus a vital primary resource for scholars of modern Russian history and gender studies, offering a compelling and personal route into understanding how the machinations of Soviet Russia destroyed everyday life, tearing families apart and leaving scars that never healed.
Table of Contents:
Translator's Preface
Introduction
1. An Odessa Childhood
2. Growing Up During War and Revolution
3. A New Life in Petrograd
4. Gathering Clouds: Marital Storms and Emigration
5. Homecoming and a New Start in Moscow
6. Love and Marriage in Leningrad
7. Motherhood in a Time of Terror
8. Intro the Vortex of Suffering: Ten Years in the Gulag
9. Release, Exile and Rehabilitation: The Bittersweet Taste of 'Freedom'
Further Readings
Index