Week: 18 OCT - The Bolshevik Revolution and Early Soviet Period | Gender History of Eastern Europe: A Transnational Perspective | DL 1

DL 1

Section outline

Goldman, Wendy Z. Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1-13; 29-58.

Gorsuch, Anne E. “‘A Woman Is Not a Man’: The Culture of Gender and Generation in Soviet Russia, 1921-1928.” Slavic Review 55, no. 3 (October 1, 1996): 636–60.

Mandatory film:

Prostituka (A Prostitute), 1927

Mandatory podcast:

Witness History - The Original Revolutionary Feminist (first 9 mins)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03lfbqt
- Select activity 3.1 Pages from Goldman - 1993 - Women, the state, and revolution Soviet family po
  
  3.1 Pages from Goldman - 1993 - Women, the state, and revolution Soviet family po File
- Select activity 3.2 Gorsuch - 1996 - A Woman is Not a Man The Culture of Gender and
  
  3.2 Gorsuch - 1996 - A Woman is Not a Man The Culture of Gender and File