Celebrating Women: Gender Festival Culture & Bolshevik Ideology 1910-1939

by Choi Chatterjee

Book Overview

The first International Women's Day was celebrated in Copenhagen in 1910 and adopted by the Bolsheviks in 1913 as a means to popularize their political program among factory women in Russia. By 1918, Women's Day had joined May Day and the anniversary of the October Revolution as the most important national holidays on the calendar. Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961105
• ISBN13: 9780822961109
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"