Umfang:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789042030633
Serie:
On the Boundary of Two Worlds Ser.
Inhalt:
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.
Inhalt:
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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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789042030626
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789042030626
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=587927
