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creators_name: Koenker, DP
title: Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East. By Elena Shulman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv plus 260 pp. $79.00.)
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B03
divisions: D92
keywords: Arts & Humanities, History, Stalinism, The Soviet Union, Communistic regime, Khetagurovites, Socialism, Human rights
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abstract: In 1937, at the height of the Soviet terror, a Communist youth league activist and wife of an official in the Soviet Far East wrote to a central newspaper to invite young women to volunteer to join her to help build socialism on the easternmost frontier of the Soviet Union. In the next three years, over 300,000 women volunteered, and about 25,000 were chosen to lend their skills and labor to the construction of farms, schools, administration, and industry of the Far East. They received the name “Khetagurovites,” after the woman who issued the original call, Valentina Khetagurova. This deeply researched and exquisitely argued book uses the phenomenon of the Khetagurovites to explore a number of key issues in the history of the Soviet Union, and it makes major contributions to our understanding of state-building, empire, gender, and sexuality in the context of the Soviet experiment. Above all, the book successfully punctures arguments about a “great retreat” to a pre-revolutionary domesticity in the 1930s, and instead offers a compelling picture of women who enthusiastically seized the opportunity to test their mettle in difficult conditions and to contribute to the common effort of the construction of socialism.
date: 2011-03-01
date_type: published
publisher: GEORGE MASON UNIV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2011.0020
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type: review
article_type_text: Book Review
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elements_id: 1527394
doi: 10.1353/jsh.2011.0020
language_elements: English
lyricists_name: Koenker, Diane
lyricists_id: DKOEN71
actors_name: Koenker, Diane
actors_id: DKOEN71
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Social History
volume: 44
number: 3
pagerange: 960-962
pages: 3
issn: 0022-4529
citation:        Koenker, DP;      (2011)    Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East. By Elena Shulman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv plus 260 pp. $79.00.).           [Review].        Journal of Social History , 44  (3)   pp. 960-962.    10.1353/jsh.2011.0020 <https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2011.0020>.       Green open access   
 
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