| Note: | TITLE: The representation of Soviet women in the Rabotnica and Krestyanka magazines and their role in informal learning / ABSTRACT: The master’s thesis examines the changing representation of women in the Soviet women’s magazines Rabotnitsa and Krest'yanka, which are considered the most important women’s periodicals of the Soviet era and were published throughout the entire existence of the Soviet Union as well as afterwards. The thesis highlights the characteristics of women’s representation in these magazines during the periods of all five major Soviet leaders. For the analysis of magazine texts, years were selected in which the features of each period were most clearly expressed: 1922/1923, marking the beginning of (regular) publication; 1937, seen as the onset of the peak of Stalin’s purges; 1963 and 1974, when Khrushchev and Brezhnev were at the height of their leadership; and 1988, when glasnost and perestroika were already firmly established. From the issues of these years, the most prominent representations of women were identified, demonstrating how the fundamental roles of women – as worker, mother, housekeeper, and political activist, along with several other notable representations – shifted from period to period. At the same time, the thesis sheds light on the educational role of the magazines, as both regularly provided educational content and thus played an important role in informal learning for readers, who could find various practical tips for everyday life in the magazines, learn many things from the published texts, and at the same time be subjected to the image of the ideal Soviet woman, which they were expected to embody themselves. The magazines also played an important role in the literacy of women, especially in the early years of publication, when the majority of women in the Soviet Union were illiterate. / KEY WORDS: representation of a soviet woman, soviet women's magazines, Rabotnitsa, Krest'yanka, informal learning |
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