Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
9-2019
Abstract
This chapter explores gender and sexuality during Stalin's rule. It considers femininities and masculinities, gender identities and relations, sexual norms and practices, and sexual politics and identities. The Stalinist gender and sexual order was not unchanging, uniform, consistent, or entirely new; it was inextricably linked to Soviet discourses and policies about national minorities, religion, class, and broader historical events as well as gender and sexual norms and identities in Imperial Russia and early Soviet rule, It consisted of emancipatory and "radical" as well as repressive and conservative policies. At its core, the Stalinist gender and sexual order was designed to be in service to the Party-state, and was oriented toward mobilizing the populace to promote modernization, grow Soviet power, and advance a new industrial "Soviet"
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Chapter of
Life in Stalin's Soviet Union
Editor
Kees Boterbloem
Recommended Citation
Randall, A. E. (2019). Gender and Sexuality. In (Ed.) K. Boterbloem, Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, pp. 139-166.
Comments
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