List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Soviet Family Policy 2. Marriage and Divorce 3. Parents and Children 4. Household Conclusion Bibliography Index
An examination of the history of the family and social policy in post-World War II Soviet Lithuania.
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality (2010).
Leinarte's book is an important contribution. It is based on
impressive source material… any area specialist, gender researcher
or forensic sociologist will be enriched.
*Nordisk Østforum*
Focusing on women's lives in Soviet-era Lithuania, Leinarte
pinpoints Soviet family and labor policies as two aspects that
impinged most strongly on their existences and examines relevant
ideological precepts, legal mandates, and policy directives.
*CHOICE*
In this book, Dalia Leinarte presents the first detailed study of
family policy and gender relations in Soviet Lithuania. Based on
both meticulous archival research and sensitive oral history, the
work is an impressive achievement. It effectively integrates
political, legal, social, and cultural perspectives to produce an
analytical survey that is wide-ranging, perceptive and insightful.
It is a story of legal principles betrayed, intractable
contradictions between policy intentions and outcomes, moral
confusion and controversy, and everyday struggles for sufficiency
and security. Engagingly and accessibly written, it will be of the
greatest interest to scholars and to students at all levels in
Soviet and East European studies, social history, women’s history
and gender studies.
*Nick Baron, Associate Professor of History, University of
Nottingham, UK*
Written by a leading feminist scholar, this meticulously researched
and clearly written book explores gendered Soviet family policies
and the ways they were experienced. Drawing on a wealth of
material, including archival sources, letters and newspapers, it
traces the construction of “a New Soviet Woman” in Lithuania and
related issues, such as Soviet marriage and divorce, battles with
tradition, and the Soviet understanding of gender equality. This
outstanding, path-breaking work is essential reading for anyone
interested in gender issues in the USSR.
*Dovile Budryte, Professor of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett
College, USA*
Leinarte’s monograph opens up a bounty of fascinating material
about the complexity of the transition from the interwar Lithuanian
republic to Soviet Lithuania. The details of the court materials,
for example lists of family belongings, will offer readers specific
insight into the material possibilities of the era. Those
interested in the legal code concerning families in Soviet
Lithuania, the way the court system functioned, and the changes in
family structure over the Soviet decades will find a valuable
source in Leinarte’s monograph.
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