SSEES PhD student Ella Rossman has recently defended her PhD thesis on the socialization of women in post-war USSR, focusing on both the specifics of late Soviet girlhood culture and the personal experiences of teenage girls and young women. Her thesis, supervised by Dr Kristin Roth-Ey and Dr Seth Graham, examines how young women in the USSR identified themselves and sought agency across different historical contexts — from late Stalinism and the Thaw to the Stagnation period and the transformative late 1980s.