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Ordinary Week: An Attempt to Emancipate Women in the Soviet Union

Publication by: Editors: N. Manukyan, T. Saghdasaryan, H. Kyureghyan, A. Haroyan

Paradigma Educational Foundation
2024

Publication type

Book (Monography, Handbook or Edited volume)

Language of publication

English, Armenian

Abstract of the publication

“Ordinary Week” is an educational graphic novel. It presents a critical perspective on the nearly seventy-year Soviet experiment of emancipating women and targeting demographic growth. The book includes the story of one week in the life of a young Soviet woman, 15 tables of statistical data, more than 20 articles from various issues of the Soviet Armenian Female Worker of Armenia magazine, a historical overview, and an active historical thinking questionnaire.

Thematic focus

Economic History

Gender History

Social History