Department of History - Carnegie Mellon University

Faculty

Wendy Goldman

Rank: Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 1987
Department Member Since: 1987

Wendy Goldman is a political and social historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Her book, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936, won the Berkshire Conference Book Award in 1994 for the best book in any field of history written by a woman. She is also the author of Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, a study of Soviet women and industrialization in the 1930s, and numerous articles on Soviet social history. Her most recent book, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin. The Social Dynamics of Repression, focuses on the dissemination of repression and the issue of mass participation in the terror. Her books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Russian. She is coeditor (with Donald Filtzer, Gijs Kessler, Simon Pirani) of A Dream Deferred. Studies in Russian Labour History. She is currently working on “Intimate Betrayal”, a book about the behavior and psychology of Soviet citizens during the terror. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Council on Eurasian and East European Research, National Council on Soviet and East European Research, Social Science Research Council, IREX, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is the director of a faculty exchange between Carnegie Mellon and Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. She has served as the director of the Working Class History Seminar within the Pittsburgh Center for Social History, and on the boards of consulting editors for the journals International Labor and Working Class History, Gender and History, and Social Science History. She is presently serving as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History.

Publications

Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin. The Social Dynamics of Repression (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2007). Italian edition, 2009.

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2002; paperback edition, 2002). Russian edition, 2009.

Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge University Press, 1993; paperback edition, 1993) Spanish edition, 2009.

A Dream Deferred. Studies in Russian Labour History (Peter Lang, 2008) (Co edited with Donald Filtzer, Gijs Kessler, Simon Pirani).

“Terror and Democracy: The 1937 Union Campaign,” American Historial Review (December, 2005).

“The Internal Soviet Passport: Workers and Free Movement,” in Marsha Siefert, ed., Extending the Borders of Russian History (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2002).

“Les Femmes dans la Société Sovietique,” in Michel Dreyfus et al., eds., Siecle des Communismes (Paris: L'Atelier, 2000).

“Babas at the Bench: Gender Relations in Industry in the 1930s,” in Melanie Ilic, ed., Women and the Stalin Era (London: Macmillan, 2001).

“Industrial Politics, Peasant Rebellion, and the Death of the Proletarian Women's Movement in the USSR,” Slavic Review, 55 (1996): 46-77.

“Abortion, the State, and Soviet Women, 1917-1936,” in B. Clements, B. Engel, C. Worobec, eds., Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (University of California Press, 1991).

“Working-Class Women and the 'Withering-Away' of the Family: Popular Responses to Family Policy,” in S. Fitzpatrick, A. Rabinowitch, R. Stites, eds., Russia in the Era of NEP (Indiana University Press, 1991).