Naslov
Stakhanovism and its Feminine Side: the USSR and Yugoslavia’s New Proletariat

Autori
Matošević, Andrea

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Skup
Past, Present, Future 2015: Identity in Flux

Mjesto i datum
Pula, Hrvatska, 28.05.2015. - 30.05.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Stahanovizam; rodni odnosi; rad; tkalje
(Stakhanovism; gender relations; work; weavers)

Sažetak
Taking Dziga Vertov’s documentary movie Tri pesni o Lenine(Three songs on Lenin) which was released in 1934, as our point of departure, we are able to follow the development of a shock worker’s “feminine side” i.e. the representation of feminine shock workers from the USSR of that time will be intensified. It is Maria Belik, Dziga Vertov’s “timid” proletarian movie protagonist who represents the beginnining of this new labouring and emancipated femininity, which will find its most developed articulation in tractor drivers and weavers, particularly after 1935. However, higher income was not the only issue as these shock workers and Stakhanovites had to show a higher interest in culture, education, consumption and even science, an attitude which was often in direct conflict with their work schedule. Yet when compared to Yugoslav shock workers who followed this Soviet proletarian principle during the first years of socialism, they were a prewar phenomenon and often very well retributed individuals, both materially and symbolically. The identity and future of their Yugoslav hard labouring colleagues, including textile workers and other girl shock workers, was very different. Their position and “function” were explicitly more political but even more important, rooted into the framework of a “gift” – a process that will strengthen their identity as simpleminded, naive and sincere persons.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA