LYNNE ATTWOOD Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of ManchesterMARY BUCKLEY Professor of Politics, Royal Holloway College, University of LondonCHOI CHATTERJEE Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Los AngelesSUSANNE CONZE Researcher in Women's History in the Stalin PeriodSARAH DAVIES Lecturer in History, University of DurhamWENDY GOLDMAN Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon UniversityROSALIND MARSH Professor of Russian Studies, University of BathEMMA MASON PhD Student, Russian and East European Studies, University of BirminghamSUSAN REID Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of SheffieldCARMEN SCHEIDE Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, University of Basel

• 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