Education, Job Experience and the Gap Between Male and Female Wages in the Soviet Union

1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Clayton ◽  
James R Millar
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Female Wages

Gender and the Construction of Wartime Heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum ◽  
Nancy M. Wingfield
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Post War ◽  
War Commemoration

During World War II, the Soviet media featured both male and female military heroes as part of an effort to mobilize the entire nation for the protection of hearth and home. The wartime hero cults inspired post-war commemoration in both the Soviet Union and in countries it `liberated' from Nazism. However, no single Communist/Soviet model of commemoration and heroism was imposed on post-World War II Eastern Europe. The relative lack of female heroes constituted one of the most striking differences between the `cults' of the war in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. The difference can be explained in part as a consequence of the very different Soviet and Czechoslovak wartime experiences. The absence of female heroes also points to post-war differences in how the two states' leaders understood and employed the legitimizing potential of the war. These differences in turn shaped the post-Communist fate of hero cults in both countries.

“Save the Men!”

Sibirica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Tricia Starks
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Male Health ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
National Conversation ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Propaganda Posters

In 1968, the Soviet economist and demographer Boris Urlanis started a national conversation in the Soviet Union with his article “Beregite muzhchin!” or “Save the Men!” in the popular journal Literaturnaia gazeta. The essay, translated here, points out the increasingly troubling imbalance in male and female health as men were dying, on average, eight years earlier than women. Urlanis calls for attention to accidents and lifestyle problems (smoking and drinking, as featured in propaganda posters) as well as a nationwide set of health institutions centered on male health. The essay precipitated a flood of essays, letters, commentaries, cartoons, and even a movie under the same title.

Review of Social Thought in the Soviet Union.

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 516-516
Author(s):  
Morton Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Soviet Union
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