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Shaw, Claire (2022) Take care of your hearing! Fighting deafness in the Stalinist 1930s. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 19 (2). pp. 259-280. doi:10.14765/zzf.dok-2438 ISSN 1612-6033.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2438
Abstract
During the first five-year plan, the Soviet state turned to an unusual source to cope with the challenge of factory-induced deafness and disability: the deaf community. From 1930 to 1937, deaf activists, alongside specialist doctors, organised a yearly, three-day event known as Beregi slukh! (Take Care of Your Hearing!) to propagandise the prevention of deafness. During these years, more than 46,600 lectures were held in venues across the Soviet Union and 7,900,000 brochures, leaflets and posters printed. While the event reflected the Soviet belief that disability was a relic of the ›backward‹ past that would be eliminated as communism approached, the deaf activists involved in these events used them to make the alternative case for their own identity as a legitimate part of the Soviet body politic. By foregrounding their labour capacities and demonstrating aspects of deaf cultural practices (including sign language) to a hearing audience, Beregi slukh! became a powerful means to advocate for the centrality of the deaf community to Soviet visions of self and society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Deaf -- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953, Hearing impaired -- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953, Deaf culture -- Soviet Union, Work environment -- Soviet Union | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Zeithistorische Forschungen | ||||||
| Publisher: | Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1612-6033 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 20 December 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 19 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 259-280 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.14765/zzf.dok-2438 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 August 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 December 2022 | ||||||
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