Artikel
Sovietization with a women's face : gender and the social imaginary of Sovietness in western Ukraine
Verfasst von:
Amar, Tarik Cyril
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Stuttgart:
2016
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363-390 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Amar, Tarik Cyril info |
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| Jahr: | 2016 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Through a close reading and contextualization of major examples of official cultural production in post-1939 Western Ukraine, a key part of the “Soviet West”, this article reconstructs the interplay in officially sanctioned popular culture of three constitutive elements of Sovietness: the transfer of Soviet modernity, the social imaginary of gender with special regard to femininity, and the continual delimitation against defining Others. It uses the self-articulating practices of Sovietization as a window on a specific and important section of the Soviet social imaginary – how the making of the New Woman was imagined as well as her contribution to spreading Sovietness. The Soviet imaginary of a modernity mission in a backward West had a prominent place for women. On the whole, its inherent universalism prevailed: what exemplary women were meant to do in the new Soviet West was not principally new but followed patterns congealing in the 1930s and developing further during the German-Soviet War. At the most fundamental level, this political-cultural outcome was not contingent but reflected the fact that Sovietization was a core, not an auxiliary, element of Sovietness: being Soviet included the potential for spreading Sovietness. A new borderland could and would produce variation but not rupture. | |
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