Overview
- First full-length book in English to examine the impact of the central Soviet authorities attempts to ‘liberate’ women in the Volga and Urals / Central Eurasian region
- Takes a closer look at ethnic minority women in Russia and Central Eurasia to be visible in Soviet gender history
- Puts emphasis on Soviet emancipation practices, presented in the broader context of gendered politics of modernization
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Soviet Emancipation and Modernization
- Soviet Women and Emancipation
- Russian Imperial Politics and Emancipation
- Gender Issues and Islam
- Revolutions of 1917 in the Volga-Ural Region
- Democracy and Anti-Colonialism
- Soviet Politics of Emancipation
- Russification, and Forced Christianization
- Emancipation of Natsionalka
- Visualizing Change in Soviet Silent Films
- Emancipation in Turkey
- Soviet Politics of Culturalization
- Muslim Women in Soviet Gender History
About this book
This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order to explore how the “emancipation” and “culturalization” of women of “culturally backward nations” was practiced and presented for the mass Soviet audience. Whilst the special focus of the book lies in the region between the Volga and the Urals (and Muslim women of the Central Eurasia), the Soviet emancipation practices are presented in the broader context of gendered politics of modernization in the beginning of the 20th century. The analysis of the Soviet documents of the 1920s-1930s not only subverts the Soviet story on “generous help” with emancipation of natsionalka through uncovering its imperial/colonial aspects, but also makes an important contribution to the studies of imperial domination and colonial politics. This book is addressed to all interested in Russian and Eurasian studies and in decolonial approach to gender history.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor in History and works at the Department of Gender Studies and the Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet social history, gender equality politics and decolonial perspective on history of Soviet emancipation of non-Russian women and racism. Gradskova is the author of more than 40 articles and co-author and co-editor of several books, including Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions – the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia (Brill, 2017 – with E. Blomberg, Y. Waldemarson and A. Zvinkliene); Institutionalizing gender equality – Global and Historical Perspective (Lexington books, 2015 – with S. Sanders); And They Lived Happily Ever After? Norms and Everyday Practices of Family and Parenthood in Russia and Eastern Europe (Budapest: CEU Press, 2012 – with H. Carlbäck and Zh.Kravchenko).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman
Book Subtitle: Natsionalka
Authors: Yulia Gradskova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99199-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99198-6Published: 24 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07575-0Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99199-3Published: 04 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 196
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Women's Studies, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Cultural Studies