ISBN:
9789042030633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42/094793
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
Women Biography
;
Women History
;
Women ; Lithuania ; Biography
;
Women ; Lithuania ; History
;
Women ; Lithuania ; Social conditions
;
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Abstract:
For millions of people, the Soviet experience meant not only living through the torment of Stalinism and the GULAG, the unbelievable destiny of men and women during the 1917 Revolution, civil war, and the Second World War, or those breathtaking, gigantic.
Abstract:
Intro -- Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality : Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945 - 1970 -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE -- Oral Testimony as History -- Silence as Testimony -- Part II WOMEN, WORK, AND FAMILY IN SOVIET LITHUANIA -- State Propaganda and Assistance for Working Mothers -- Reconciling Family and Work: Everyday Practices -- Gender Roles and Family Life -- Soviet Romantic Love and Friendship -- Part III LIFE STORIES OF LITHUANIAN WOMEN -- "Maybe she was afraid because I was a political prisoner?" -- "I almost wanted him to die" -- "Everyone was creating socialism, and everyone was looking at it with hope" -- "I wasn't sorry that I got divorced - I felt like a fully-esteemed person again" -- "I got married to a Russian and was a member of the Party" -- "I always had two or three jobs. But why did I work so much?" -- "You're different to all the other women" -- "We had so much fun in our life" -- "If the state gives you full care then it goes without saying what kind of person you should be and how you should see things" -- "Life has passed by, just like that..." -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Archives -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
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