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This article explores the articulation and experience of Soviet gendered ideology regarding work in the Tajik SSR, one of the Muslim Soviet peripheries, during the post-war period ending with Perestroika. Central Asian women’s work was used for economic purposes, as well as being a key driver for fulfilling the ideological objective of emancipating Central Asian women from religion and tradition. Through a feminist postcolonial geography approach, attentive to questions of discourse and material lived experiences, this article explores the ways in which gender and ethnicity were co-produced by Soviet ideology. Analysis of scientific publications produced by Tajikistani female researchers, and of women’s magazines from the 1950s, is contrasted with ethnographic data on workers from various collective farms and semi-urban places, including ‘work heroines’ (peshqadam). Our findings illustrate the hybrid nature of the Soviet regime, advancing theoretical debates on the use of postcolonial theory in Soviet Central Asia.
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189512
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In March 1956, an Indian woman who had recently visited the Soviet Union sent a letter of thanks to her hosts at the Committee of Soviet Women (Komitet Sovetskikh Zhenshchin; KSZh). In it, she interspersed recollections of her trip with the one that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had made in the summer of 1955. Since her visit, she wrote, whenever she saw newsreel footage of Nehru in Moscow, she expected to catch a glimpse of the face of her new acquaintance “Nina” in the crowd.1 She thereby intimated that now she too had a personal connection with the Soviet people. She also remarked that many Indians were interested in the Soviet Union, and that she hoped that the earlier exchange visits between Nehru and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who travelled to India in the fall of 1955, would bring their countries closer together. Imbuing her own trip with comparable import, she declared that exchanging culture and opinions between countries would strengthen the movement for peace.
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