Women Communism And Industrialization In Postwar Poland

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196876
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malgorzata Fidelis' study of female industrial workers in postwar Poland proves that women were central to the making of communist society.

Author : Katherine A. Lebow
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146885X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Utopia written by Katherine A. Lebow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta's construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow explores their various encounters with the ideology and practice of Stalinist mobilization by seeking out their voices in memoirs, oral history interviews, and archival records, juxtaposing these against both the official and unofficial transcripts of Stalinism. Far from the gray and regimented landscape we imagine Stalinism to have been, the fledgling city was a colorful and anarchic place where the formerly disenfranchised (peasants, youth, women) hastened to assert their leading role in "building socialism"—but rarely in ways that authorities had anticipated.

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Proletarians written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019764340X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties occupy a prominent place in popular culture and scholarship as an era of global upheavals, including the Civil Rights Movement, de-colonization, radical social movements, student and youth protests, and the Vietnam War. This pioneering book explores the seemingly isolated Eastern bloc and a non-capitalist context, demonstrating the impact of those global upheavals on young people in Poland in the form of international youth culture, protest movements, and counterculture.

Author : Anna Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190499869
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If the Walls Could Speak written by Anna Müller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes. (source : éditeur).

Author : Kristen R. Ghodsee
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568588895
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism written by Kristen R. Ghodsee and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex. In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The response was tremendous — clearly she articulated something many women had sensed for years: the problem is with capitalism, not with us. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. She argues here that unregulated capitalism disproportionately harms women, and that we should learn from the past. By rejecting the bad and salvaging the good, we can adapt some socialist ideas to the 21st century and improve our lives. She tackles all aspects of a woman's life - work, parenting, sex and relationships, citizenship, and leadership. In a chapter called "Women: Like Men, But Cheaper," she talks about women in the workplace, discussing everything from the wage gap to harassment and discrimination. In "What To Expect When You're Expecting Exploitation," she addresses motherhood and how "having it all" is impossible under capitalism. Women are standing up for themselves like never before, from the increase in the number of women running for office to the women's march to the long-overdue public outcry against sexual harassment. Interest in socialism is also on the rise -- whether it's the popularity of Bernie Sanders or the skyrocketing membership numbers of the Democratic Socialists of America. It's become increasingly clear to women that capitalism isn't working for us, and Ghodsee is the informed, lively guide who can show us the way forward.

Author : Nupur Chaudhuri
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077369
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Archives written by Nupur Chaudhuri and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contesting Archives makes vivid and concrete the way historians must proceed when faced with partial or contradictory sources. Historians and anyone interested in how historians work will appreciate the authors' strategies for, and cautions about, unearthing information about women from documents inside and outside the archive." Margaret Strobel, coeditor of Expanding the Borders of Women's History --

Author : Francisca de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415535751
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism written by Francisca de Haan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. This book addresses women's internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women's movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007089
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stalinist Era written by David L. Hoffmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Author : Jelena Batinić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107091071
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Yugoslav Partisans written by Jelena Batinić and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.