TY  - GEN
T1  - Celebrating women : gender, festival culture, and Bolshevik ideology, 1910-1939
T2  - Series in Russian and East European studies.
T2  - University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
T2  - University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
A1  - Chatterjee, Choi
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn298104986
AB  - The first International Women's Day was celebrated in Copenhagen in 1910 and adopted by the Bolsheviks in 1913 as a means to popularize their political program among factory women in Russia. By 1918, Women's Day had joined May Day and the anniversary of the October Revolution as the most important national holidays on the calendar. Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day in Russia and the early Soviet Union to demonstrate the ways in which these celebrations were a strategic form of cultural practice that marked the distinctiveness of Soviet civilization, legitimized the Soviet mission for women, and articulated the Soviet construction of gender. Unlike previous scholars who have criticized the Bolsheviks' for repudiating their initial commitment to Marxist feminism, Chatterjee has discovered considerable continuity in the way that they imagined the ideal woman and her role in a communist society. Through the years, Women's Day celebrations temporarily empowered women as they sang revolutionary songs, acted as strong protagonists in plays, and marched in processions carrying slogans about gender equality. In speeches, state policies, reports, historical sketches, plays, cartoons, and short stories, the passive Russian woman was transformed into an iconic Soviet Woman, one who could survive, improvise, and prevail over the most challenging of circumstances.
OP  - 223
NO  - "A version of chapter 6 was previously published in "Soviet Heroines and Public Identity, 1930-1939," The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies no. 1402 (Pittsburgh, October 1999)"--Title page verso.
CN  - HQ1662
SN  - 0822941783
SN  - 9780822941781
SN  - 9780822961109
SN  - 0822961105
SN  - 9780822970651
SN  - 0822970651
KW  - Women : Soviet Union : Social conditions.
KW  - Women and communism : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - International Women's Day : Soviet Union.
KW  - Women : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Femmes : URSS : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Femmes et communisme : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - Journée internationale des femmes : URSS.
KW  - Femmes : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - 15.70 history of Europe.
KW  - International Women's Day
KW  - Women
KW  - Women and communism
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Festivals.
KW  - Bolsjewisme.
KW  - International Women's Day : Russia.
KW  - Women : Russia : Social conditions.
KW  - Women and communism : Russia.
KW  - Women : Russia.
KW  - Women : Russia : History : 20th century.
KW  - History
ER  -