Celebrating women : gender, festival culture, and Bolshevik ideology, 1910-1939 /
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 i...
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press
©2002.
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| Series: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.11955043 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction, holidays and history
- International Women's Day : rituals of revolution
- The two stories of the February Revolution
- Why do we need a women's holiday? : the contest for definition
- Popular theater and women onstage
- The language of liberation
- The public identity of Soviet women.