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Praskovya Angelina

Praskovya Angelina

Soviet udarnik

Praskovya "Pasha" Nikitichna Angelina (Russian: Праско́вья Ники́тична Анге́лина; December 30  [O.S. January 12] 1912 – 21 January 1959) was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, udarnik and Stakhanovite at the time of the first Five-Year-Plans. She was recognized as one of the first female tractor-operators in the USSR and became a celebrity as a symbol of the technically educated female Soviet worker.

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Biography

Angelina was born in Starobesheve, into a Greek family of peasants.[1] Her father was a farmhand and her mother whitewashed huts.[2] In 1929, she started attending tractor-driving courses in her native oblast while also working at a dairy farm. In 1933, she organized an all-female tractor team that was reported to have achieved 129% of the quota and thus to have ranked first among the tractor teams of the region. She was made a celebrity, placed prominently in the media and depicted on propaganda posters. In 1935, she was among the "Champions of Agricultural Labour" selected to hold a conference with the leaders of the Party and state in the Kremlin. At that conference, she officially promised to organize 10 more female tractor teams in her raion. In 1938 she signed an appeal entitled "One hundred thousand (female) friends - onto the tractor!" (Russian: "Сто тысяч подруг - на трактор!"). Women shouldering work with tractors made it possible for more men to be drafted into the Soviet Army before and during World War II. During the Second World War, Angelina studied agriculture in Moscow[where?] for two years and then worked as a brigade leader in the Kazakh SSR until the end of hostilities.[3][4] After the war, she returned to work in the same function in Starobeshevo. In 1948, Angelina authored an autobiographical book, Lyudi kolkhoznykh polei ("The people of the kolkhoz fields").[citation needed]

She died of cirrhosis in Moscow in 1959.[5]

Praskovya was elected as a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1937.[citation needed] [citation needed]

Awards

Angelina was twice a Hero of Socialist Labour (1947, 1958), a recipient of the Stalin Prize (1946), and was bestowed three Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. She was also elected into the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1937, 1946 and 1950.

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References

  1. [1]
    Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1994). Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization. Oxford University Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-19-510459-2.
  2. [2]
    Sergei Tretyakov, «Девять девушек», Вчера и сегодня: очерки русских советских писателей, Vol. 1, p. 306; tr. as "Nine Girls," in James Von Geldern and Richard Stites (eds.), Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953 (Indiana University Press, 1995: ISBN 0-253-32893-4), p. 218.
  3. [3]
    Казахстан в период Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза, 1941-1945: Июнь 1941-1943 гг (in Russian). Наука. 1964.
  4. [4]
    Nurbekova, Gulzhamilya (1988). Женщины Казахстана--фронту : трудовой подвиг женщин Казахстана в промышленности и сельском хозяйстве республики в годы Великой Отечественной войны (in Russian). Kazakhstan. ISBN 978-5-615-00025-6.
  5. [5]
    "Трактор и судьба".
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