Seasoned Socialism
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Seasoned Socialism

Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life

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Seasoned Socialism

Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life

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This essay anthology explores the intersection of gender, food and culture in post-1960s Soviet life from personal cookbooks to gulag survival. Seasoned Socialism considers the relationship between gender and food in late Soviet daily life, specifically between 1964 and 1985. Political and economic conditions heavily influenced Soviet life and foodways during this period and an exploration of Soviet women's central role in the daily sustenance for their families as well as the obstacles they faced on this quest offers new insights into intergenerational and inter-gender power dynamics of that time. Seasoned Socialism considers gender construction and performance across a wide array of primary sources, including poetry, fiction, film, women's journals, oral histories, and interviews. This collection provides fresh insight into how the Soviet government sought to influence both what citizens ate and how they thought about food.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780253040985
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Agricultural Public Policy
Index
Politics & International Relations
INDEX
Page numbers in italics indicate figures.
abortion, 288, 289
abstinence rhetoric, 215
abundance, xi, xvi, 44, 127, 140, 146, 154, 157, 330
active rest (aktivnyi otdykh), 182
activists, 6, 197, 248, 266n4
adoption, 282, 289
adultery, 50
advice, xv, 7, 47, 183, 321, 326; columns, 4, 36, 40, 42, 56n37, 197–98, 217n15; manuals, 22, 37–38, 52, 226, 229, 232–33, 236, 240, 322, 331–32
aesthetics, 224, 226–27, 233, 297, 303
Afonia (film), 47, 58n52
agency, 254, 260, 320
agrarian (peasant) roots, 189
agricultural production, 199; private agricultural sector, 261
Akhmatova, Anna, 23, 299, 302, 317; “New Year’s Ballad,” 308–9, 319n37
alcohol: abusers, 196–97; bootlegging, 198; consumption, patterns of, 195–96, 216; purchasing of, 191n24, 196, 211, 213
alcoholic, 47, 70, 114, 197, 200–2, 206, 210, 214, 293n34, 327, 323, 330
alcoholism, 13, 69, 195, 197, 199–201, 203–5, 211, 214, 275; clinical, symptoms of, 204; curse of, 214; as deficiency of will, 200, 205; as disease, 200–1; as a health problem, 197; late stage, 201
Alentova, Vera, 50
anti-drunkenness measures, 196, 198
antiquity, 226
“apartment question,” 114
appearance, focus on, 228
Aragvi (Moscow restaurant), 149
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience
  9. I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society
  10. II. Producers, Providers, and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style
  11. III. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food
  12. Afterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index