Soviet Motherhood in the Gulag, Lived and Remembered

My comps examines women\u27s accounts of the Soviet Gulag using archival and memoir sources. I focus on women\u27s conceptions of themselves as mothers, isolating pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing as key gendered motifs in women\u27s memoirs of the Gulag. I also examine Soviet family policy in the 1930s and women\u27s understandings of their roles as mothers vis-a-vis the Soviet state