The female worker inwords and pictures

As state socialism is being gradually historicised, a set of dominant topics and narrative conventions become recognisable in how communist culture is being remembered and chronicled. Within this discursive universe, the portrayal of the socialist woman has earned a prominent place. While adding further aspects to conventional interpretations of this figure, the paper also argues for dimming 1945 as an ultimate rupture point and recalls, instead, meaningful continuities with both progressive social ideas and artistic aspirations of the interwar years as the period preceding Europe’s decades-long ideological division

Aesthetics · Art · Communism · communist culture · female workers · gender and socialism · Historical memory · Ideology · Interwar period · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · post-1945 historiography · Socialism · Sociology · visual representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Photographic and Visual Arts · Soviet and Russian History