ISBN:
9789042030633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
On the boundary of two worlds, 24
Series Statement:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds
Series Statement:
Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976.
Parallel Title:
Print version: Leinarte, Dalia. Adopting and remembering Soviet reality.
DDC:
305.4094793
Keywords:
1945-1991
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Women Biography.
;
Social conditions.
;
Women.
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Lithuania Social conditions 1945-1991.
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Lithuania.
;
Biography.
;
History.
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 Socialist construction projects. Many citizens of the former Soviet Union lived "ordinary lives in ordinary times", where the fate of men and women depended not on armed coercion, but Soviet ideology and propaganda. Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality contains the stories of ten women, talking about their lives in Soviet Lithuania, one of the annexed Baltic republics. The book gives a compelling account of how, in the last years of Stalin's rule, after 1945, during the so-called "Khrushchev Thaw", and in the beginning of the "Stagnation Era", Soviet ideology transfused the everyday life of women and dictated just about every major aspect of their lives. Based on interviews, the journalistic press of that era, as well as other material, the book reveals how propaganda shaped women's understanding of family and work responsibilities, child care, interpersonal relationships, romantic love, and friendship.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Oral Testimony as History -- Silence as Testimony -- State Propaganda and Assistance for Working Mothers -- Reconciling Family and Work: Everyday Practices -- Gender Roles and Family Life -- Soviet Romantic Love and Friendship -- \'Maybe she was afraid because I was a political prisoner?\' by Stefanija Kučinskienė -- \'I almost wanted him to die\' by Monika Jonynaitė-Makūnienė -- \'Everyone was creating socialism, and everyone was looking at it with hope\' by Leokadija Diržinskaitė -- \'I wasn't sorry that I got divorced - I felt like a fully-esteemed person again\' by Julija Greičienė -- \'I got married to a Russian and was a member of the Party\' by Marija Popova -- \'I always had two or three jobs. But why did I work so much?\' by Apolonija Birutė Paliulienė -- \'You're different to all the other women\' by Adasa Skliutauskaitė -- \'We had so much fun in our life\' by Aušra Dilienė -- \'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\' by Aneta Šlegel -- \'Life has passed by, just like that...\' by Danutė Marija Kvasienė -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Archives -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
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