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Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization. Edited by William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxii, 296 pp. $39.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization. Edited by William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H.... husbands (e.g., the divorce and alimony policies), an open door to technical schooling and in - dustrial jobs that had been largely closed during NEP, and an expanded network of child care facilities for working women. But Goldman rejects this notion by arguing that real wages plunged roughly 50 percent from 1928 to 1932, leaving women as dependent as ever on a spouse's income (and reinforcing the family, with its now-essential double income). Moreover, she contends, measures like the establishment of additional child care sites did not greatly re- duce the burden of women's household work. Instead, Goldman concludes, the state ex- tended women a "tacit bargain" by 1936: more protection for the family (and thus more pro - tection for women victimized by disintegrating families over the past fifteen years) in return for women shouldering the double burden of a job outside the home along with household chores and motherhood. The government now focused on increasing production and the birthrate - not its earlier "promise to socialize household labor and to foster freer, more equal relations be- tween men and women." While the book does cover the whole period promised in its title (Revolution, War Com- munism, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization. Edited by William G. Rosenberg and Lewis H. Siegelbaum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xxii, 296 pp. $39.95 cloth; $14.95 paper.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 30 (2-4): 343 – Jan 1, 1996

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Brill
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023996X00673
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husbands (e.g., the divorce and alimony policies), an open door to technical schooling and in - dustrial jobs that had been largely closed during NEP, and an expanded network of child care facilities for working women. But Goldman rejects this notion by arguing that real wages plunged roughly 50 percent from 1928 to 1932, leaving women as dependent as ever on a spouse's income (and reinforcing the family, with its now-essential double income). Moreover, she contends, measures like the establishment of additional child care sites did not greatly re- duce the burden of women's household work. Instead, Goldman concludes, the state ex- tended women a "tacit bargain" by 1936: more protection for the family (and thus more pro - tection for women victimized by disintegrating families over the past fifteen years) in return for women shouldering the double burden of a job outside the home along with household chores and motherhood. The government now focused on increasing production and the birthrate - not its earlier "promise to socialize household labor and to foster freer, more equal relations be- tween men and women." While the book does cover the whole period promised in its title (Revolution, War Com- munism,

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