BALTIC WORLDSBALTIC A scholarly journal and news magazine. December 2017. Vol. X:4. Personal diaries on From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University. the Russian Revolution December Vol. 2017. X:4 BALTIC WORLDSbalticworlds.com Herstory Revisionism Herstory Revisionism. Revisionism. Herstory • National heroines Writings and the “herstorical turn” and views • Gendered remembrance of political upheavals Women’s participation in political upheavals political in participation Women’s on women • Narratives of norm- warriors breaking women also in this issue Illustration: Karin Sunvisson UKRAINIAN WORRIES / AVANT-GARDE ART / ORIENTAL “OTHER” / NEGOTIATING NORD STREAM / NUCLEAR LEGACY Sponsored by the Foundation BALTIC2 for Baltic and East European Studies contents 3 colophon Baltic Worlds is published by WORLDSbalticworlds.com the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University, Sweden. Editor-in-chief Ninna Mörner editorial in this issue Publisher Joakim Ekman Scholarly advisory council Thomas Andrén, Södertörn History, herstory and other stories … University; Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki n this issue of Baltic Worlds, we present presented as custodians of the na- Universiy; Sofie Bedford, IRES, a selection of diary entries from 1917 in tion, or — in the opposite image — as theme Uppsala University; Michael Russia, the year of the Revolution. It is a enlightened, independent women interview Gentile, Oslo University; Markus 4 Anti-genderism. Feminism in fascinating read, with depictions of a tu- who leave family, country, and ide- Huss (chair), Stockholm University; Poland, Eva Karlberg Herstory Revisionism. Imultuous, epochal event, recorded by men and ology in order to shatter the exist- Katarina Leppänen, University of Women’s participation women known and unknown, revolutionaries ing order, associating danger with peer-reviewed in political upheavals Gothenburg; Thomas Lundén, and their detractors; with everything from ob- emancipation. articles CBEES, Södetörn University; servations of growing bread lines to realizations 10 Ukrainian views. On the war 39 Introduction, Weronika Kazimierz Musiał, University of that life had changed forever. Valentina Che- WE HAVE collected articles that and other worries, Mannila Simo Grzebalska Gdańsk; Barbara Törnquist Plewa, botareva, senior nurse at Empress Alexandra address upheavals in Eastern & Natalia Kharchenko Centre for European Studies, Lund Early photography peer-reviewed University Feodorovna Palace Hospital, on the news of the Europe and the roles women had and the railroad 102 Negotiating the Nord Stream. articles Tsar’s abdication: before and have been assigned The role of CBSS, Levke Aduda Corresponding members 42 Roots of illiberal memory subsequently. When women are The idea of luxury & Stefan Ewert Aija Lulle, University of Latvia; One signature and the way of life we deprived of the right to write their travel seems to erase the politics. Remembering women Michael North, Ernst Moritz had for centuries has been destroyed. own history, the field is left wide mythological contrast between essay in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Arndt University Greifswald; Everybody is silent. People are seized open for others to attribute to ‘civilized Europe’ and ‘wild Asia’. 20 Chinese-Eastern Railroad. Early Andrea Pető Andrzei Nowak, Jagiellonian with horror. Russia … without the tsar. politically active women whatever “. Page 30 photographs, Viktoriya Sukovata 58 Experiences of women at war. University, Kraków; Andrea Petö, There is total silence in the hospital. role they wish. Servicewomen during WWII and Central European University, story in the Ukrainian armed forces in Everybody is shocked and depressed. Baltic Worlds is the first to pres- 28 The Russian Revolution in Budapest; Jens E. Olesen, the conflict in Donbas, Olesya ent an interview with Agniezska diaries. Collected voices, Ekaterina Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Khromeychuk A VARIETY OF voices thus provides a rich im- Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk, Kalinina & Ilya Venyavkin Greifswald; Olga Schihalejev, age of one, of many, overwhelming historical describing a community develop- 71 Between gender blindness and Tartu University events. Historical descriptions normally tend to ment in which anti-gender forces conference reports national herstory. The history of Copyediting/proofreading emphasize one perspective at a time, and high- are increasing. There is a polariza- 99 Nuclear legacies. A saga of Polish women in WWII as the site Tony Crawford; Matthew Hogg, light the importance of single individuals, most tion between advocates of neo- modernity, Florence Fröhlig of an anti-modernist revolution, Semantix AB; Brian Manning often male individuals, in creating legends to conservativism and the women’s 124 Threats to academic freedom, Weronika Grzebalska Delaney, English Proper; Christy build upon. Frequently we hear the criticism movement in Poland. They refer to Ninna Mörner 83 Female terrorists: political or Hayhoe, Proper English AB; that there are so few women in history books, the statement of the Polish bishop just mad? Conservative narratives Bridget Schäfer commentaries in the historiography of early 20th and that their absence is palpable in school Tadeusz Pieronek: “Gender ideol- 112 Poland and xenophobia, Bolaji Layout century female terrorism in Russia, books, for example. ogy is worse than communism and Balogun Sara Bergfors, Lena Fredriksson, War worries Nadezda Petrusenko Here in this issue of Baltic Worlds we pres- Nazism put together.” 116 Promoting modernization Serpentin Media of the people 90 The butterfly effect in ent a section on Herstory which goes one step Gender studies has become a in Russia, Alexander Generalov Illustrators further seeing how the absence of depictions of highly politicized research area, A clear majority in all history-making. Conservative Katrin Stenmark, Karin women in history is exploited, and filled with and as a result, a target of repres- Ukrainian regions has reviews subjectivities of women in the anti- Sunvisson, Ragni Svensson the ideas of right-wing movements in order to sion. supported the unity of the coun- 118 Uprootedeness in the Polish- communist discourse in Slovakia, Subscription ≈ Thomas promote their goals and their myths. Women, Ninna Mörner try throughout the conflict. German Borderlands, Zuzana Maďarová Sofia Barlind associated with the image of the mother, are “ Page 10 Lundén essay Printed by 121 The avant-gardist Ivan Aksionov, 54 Beasts, demons, and cold Elanders Sverige AB Ingmar Oldberg bitches. Memories of communist Printed: ISSN 2000-2955 PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES have undergone a double-blind peer review by at least two independent specialists. A peer-reviewed article pub- women in contemporary Poland, Online: ISSN 2001-7308 lished in Baltic Worlds generates one publication point for the authors and their institutions in the Norwegian bibliometric register (DHB). BW is an Agnieszka Mrozik Contact Baltic Worlds Open Access Journal and all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. More information is available on our website. [email protected] The content expresses the views of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of Baltic Worlds. 4 interview interview 5 by Eva Karlberg Elżbieta Korolczuk is a sociologist, commen- tator, women's and human rights activist. She works at Södertörn University in Stockholm and teaches Gender Studies at Warsaw University. Her research interests involve social move- ments, civil society, and gender, and her most ”Is it the swan recent publications include two edited volumes, Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland, co- edited with Kerstin Jacobsson (Berghahn, 2017) and Rebellious Parents: Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia, co-edited song of patriarchy, with Katalin Fábián (Indiana University Press, 2017). For over a decade she was a member of the informal feminist group Women’s 8th of March Alliance, and currently she is engaged in the as- sociation “For Our Children,” fighting for changes or the beginning in the Polish child support system, and serves as a board member of the “Akcja Demokracja” of a new ice age?” Foundation. Interview with Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk Writer, translator, literary critic, commentator, publicist, lecturer in gender studies at Warsaw University, feminist, women’s activist, and co-founder of PK8M (Women’s 8th of March Alliance) – Agnieszka Graff’s career and im- met Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk in Stockholm to talk about the phenomenon of anti-genderism, portance can be described in numerous ways. as they have recently written together on this puzzling yet so urgent topic.1 At CBEES Annual conference However, as introduced by Jenny Gunnarsson “Competing Futures: From Rupture to Re-articulation” 2017, Agnieszka Graff gave a thought-provoking key- Payne at the 2017 CBEES Annual conference, note lecture on anti-genderism as a mobilizing force which incorporates such diverse ideas as anti-colonialism, Södertörn University, Agnieszka Graff is above anti-feminism, homophobia, Catholic conservatism, EU-skepticism, general populism, islamophobia and all a public intellectual who has contributed an aversion to refugees. In this amalgam, “gender” is used to connect the cultural with the economic, or as a greatly to the debate on gender equality in “symbolic glue”2 which does not just attack women or feminism but functions