Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East - Hardcover

Shulman, Elena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521896673 ISBN 13: 9780521896672

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

xv 260p hardback, dustjacket, NEW

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Review:

'... the book makes a solid and important contribution to Soviet history. The author's command of the secondary literature on nearly every important aspect of Stalinist society in the 1930s is impressively comprehensive and she sets her work firmly within the scholarship on Soviet social and cultural history. The research is equally impressive ...' H-Women

'The book is highly readable and provides a much-needed study of a unique facet of the Stalinist period, while raising interesting questions regarding the nature of Stalinism and the frontier experience. Scholars interested in Soviet women's history, the impact of the terror on Soviet development, the Stalinist bureaucracy, or frontier development will find this work interesting and provocative.' The Russian Review

'Based on extensive research in archival and published sources, the book is a fine addition to the history of the 1930s, particularly to the history of women's participation in the Stalinist projects of that decade ... It is a remarkable story and Shulman tells it well.' Slavic Review

Book Description:

In this book, fascinating stories of female settlers in the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East shed new light on the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s, revealing the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and the complexities of women's lives under Stalin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521896673
• ISBN 13: 9780521896672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276