The Baba and the Comrade

Autorentext
Elizabeth A. Wood is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Klappentext
Focusing on the creation and activities of the zhenotdel, a special women's section within the Russian Communist Party, Wood reconstructs the ways in which notions of gender sameness and difference both facilitated and complicated Bolshevik efforts at state building during the Civil War and the New Economic Policy.

Zusammenfassung
An original and sophisticated contribution to understanding the tangled issue of gender in Soviet Russia.

Inhalt
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Woman Question
1. The Bolsheviks and the Genealogy of the Woman Question
II. Gender in the Context of State-Making and Civil War
2. Sharp Eyes and Tender Hearts: Passing New Legislation and Fighting the Civil War
3. Identity and Organization: Creating the Women's Sections of the Communist Party
4. War Communism at Its Height: Lobbying on Behalf of Women Workers
III. The New Threat to the Social Contract
5. The Liquidation Crisis in Zhenotdel Politics
6. The Crisis in Economics: The Social Contract Endangered
7. The New Threat: Zhenotdel Criticisms of the Social Costs of NEP
8. Daily Life and Gender Transformation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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