Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality : Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970.

By: Leinarte, DaliaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, & Moral Imagination in the BalticsPublisher: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789042030633Subject(s): Women -- Lithuania -- Biography | Women -- Lithuania -- History | Women -- Lithuania -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality : Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970DDC classification: 305.42/094793 LOC classification: HQ1665.9.Z75 -- A3 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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