Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture, and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939
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Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women’s Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union. Booknews Chatterjee (history, California State U., Los Angeles) traces the development of International Women's Day in Russia and the Soviet Union from 1910 to 1939, as a means of exploring three broader themes: the development of Soviet holiday rituals and their relation to the changing content of the Bolshevik identity, the use of narration and emplotment in Soviet propaganda for women, and the evolution of the problematic morphology of the New Soviet Woman. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Holidays and History11International Women's Day: Rituals of Revolution102The Two Stories of the February Revolution373Why Do We Need a Women's Holiday? The Contest for Definition594Popular Theater and Women Onstage835The Language of Liberation1056The Public Identity of Soviet Women135Epilogue159Notes163Selected Bibliography203Index215
