MELANIE ILIC teaches Russian and Soviet history and Women's Studies at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, and is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. She is author of Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From 'Protection' to 'Equality'.

• List of Tables List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations Introduction; M.Ilic 'Born in October': The Life and Thought of Aleksandra Vasil'eva Artyukhina, 1889-1969; C.Scheide Women Workers at Play: the Portrayal of Leisure in the Magazine Rabotnitsa ('The Woman Worker') in the First Two Decades of Soviet Power; L.Attwood Soviet Heroines and the Language of Modernity, 1930-39; C.Chatterjee Babas (women) at the bench: Gender Conflict in Soviet Industry in the 1930s; W.Goldman 'A Mother's Cares': Women Workers and Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia, 1934-41; S.Davies Traktoristka (female tractor driver): Representations and Realities; M.Ilic Women in the Gulag in the 1930s; E.Mason The Untold Story of Obshchestvennitsa (women volunteers) in the 1930s; M.Buckley Women Writers of the 1930s: Conformity or Subversion; R.Marsh The New Soviet Woman and the Leader Cult in Soviet Art; S.E.Reid Women's Work and Emancipation in the Soviet Union, 194-50; S.Conze Select Bibliography Index