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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   REVIEWS: ELENA SHULMAN, STALINISM ON THE FRONTIER OF EMPIRE: WOMEN AND STATE FORMATION IN THE SOVIET FAR EAST, 2008.

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  Abstract:  Elena Shulman is an independent scholar and has taught at UC Berkeley and Texas Tech University after receiving her Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 2004. ” Stalinism on the Frontier of the Empire: Women and Stat Formation in the Soviet Far East ” which was published in 2008, is a fascinating account of frontier of the Stalinism, told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist borders of the Soviet Far East, in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental functions that these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural domination in the periphery. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage and films, shed new light on Soviet womenʼs roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in structuring gender ideals and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these stories Elena Shulman offers a picture of the world of the frontier as well as the complexities of womenʼs lives in the USSR, under Stalinʼs rule.  
         
     
         
         
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