Did Communism Liberate Women? Examples from Eastern Europe
May 14, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Melissa Feinberg
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Usually equated in the West with tyranny, Communism in Eastern Europe was rife with seeming contradictions. The system censored books but also ended illiteracy. Finding bananas in a store was almost impossible; yet the average person had more to eat than ever. Feinberg, chair of the Rutgers-New Brunswick history department, examines the complicated impact of Communism on women’s lives in Eastern Europe. A specialist in modern East-Central European and women’s and gender history, she is the author of Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe and Communism in Eastern Europe.
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