Gender, Ethnicity, and Individual Resistance

Arpenik Aleksanyan's Diaries of Stalinist Deportations

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ID12975224
AuthorsЭлла Россман (0000-0001-8443-177X, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume17
Issue1
Pages105-121
Publication date2024-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGirlhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ghs.2024.170109
OpenAlexW4392473895
LanguageEN
References cited10

In this article, I explore Sibirskiy dnevnik (henceforth Siberian Diary ) of Arpenik Aleksanyan, a Soviet student of Armenian origin who, together with her family, was exiled to Siberia in one of the late Stalinist deportations of ethnic minorities. Arpenik's diary provides a unique perspective on forced displacement and exile through the eyes of a young woman. I treat the diary both as an historical source revealing gendered experiences of forced displacement and as autobiographical writing that provides a glimpse into late Stalinist girlhood and young women's subjectivity. I provide a reading of Siberian Diary that reveals Arpenik's seemingly contradictory integration of Stalinist ideologies of the so-called new woman and nationalities as a foundation for self-construction as well as individual resistance to persecution

Biology · Ethnic group · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Ecology

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