“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.

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.

scholarly journals Development of the Soviet Nursery System in 1930–1940 yy.

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Valery Yu. Albitsky ◽  
Stella A. Sher ◽  
Oksana V. Yaremchuk
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Child Care Facilities ◽  
Childhood Infection ◽  
And Child Health

The results of historical and medical research of development of nursery system in 1930–1940 in the Soviet Union are presented in this publication. Large-scale involvement of women to creation of socialist society has demanded to get rid of house work, care of their own child, and as a result creation of network of maternal and child health institutions. The nurseries have become the most common. Thanks to dynamic building and construction work of child care facilities in 1932–1933 yy up to 80% of children had places in nurseries in large industrial centres, and up to 66% of children had places in seasonal nurseries in collective farms. The increase of nursery capacity in the USSR in1938 for previous two years was 30.5%. Despite massive success in the field of nursery network creation, there were some mistakes during construction and some drawbacks in health services for ill and healthy children were revealed. For instance: irrational nursery space planning, inability to isolate one group from another during quarantine in case of childhood infection, massive morbidity with childhood infection in nurseries, incompetence of medical staff, insufficient nurseries capacity management in case of high necessity of nursery care. High importance was given to creation of nursery isolation hospitals for patients and children on a quarantine for solving these problems.

scholarly journals Dwie przestrzenie wojennej propagandy. Język utworów moskiewskich Okien TASS

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-199
Author(s):  
Agata Książek
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
World War ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Information Manipulation ◽  
Propaganda Posters ◽  
Second World

The aim of the article is to analyze the language of the Soviet propaganda posters from the Second World War period, containing the poetic commentary of the members of the Moscow TASS Agency. The research reveals the main means of persuasion used in the poems. The subject of the analysis is the phenomenon of spreading ideas in two basic social spheres that occurred in the Soviet Union during the war period, which include people who took direct part in military actions, and Soviet citizens who provided the army with all the necessary materials. Texts addressed to potential soldiers contained a direct call to defend the homeland and family. Their most important manipulative tools were emotional arguments and the technique of stereotyping the enemy. Ideas and personal patterns were instilled in the minds of the fighters with various linguistic manipulation techniques. The propaganda referenced to the belongingness need. Different propaganda techniques were used in poems targeted at people behind the lines of hostilities. The authors of the texts of TASS Windows used colloquial language, comprehensible to a wide audience. They created a vision of a world divided into two opposite poles and referred to respected authorities or raised new role models. The propaganda of the victory also required different techniques of information manipulation. The TASS Windows present the unique contribution of the Soviet poets to the action of the mobilization ofsociety to take part in the fight against the German aggressor.

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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