The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapte

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The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

Melanie Ilic Editor

The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union

Editor Melanie Ilic School of Liberal and Performing Arts University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham UK

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

An earlier version of Mary Buckley’s chapter was presented as ‘Contemporary Russian Reflections on Human Trafficking and Bonded Labour’ at the 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, USA, 21–24 November 2013. Thanks are due to participants for their feedback. For research expenses, Mary Buckley is indebted to the British Academy and Russian Academy of Sciences, who backed trips to Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2004 and 2007, and again to the British Academy for a small research grant enabling a further visit in 2007 and for funding a nationwide public opinion poll and focus groups. Mary Buckley is also very grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for an Emeritus Fellowship from September 2014 to December 2015 for the continuation of this project, and to the Rockefeller Foun