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The Status of Women in the Soviet Union

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2023

For centuries, many women have been at the forefront of the struggle for emancipation and political changes. Efforts at integrating the idea of emancipation into society was an important part of the Bolshevik ideology; thus, the October Revolution of 1917 brought women new hope and new expectations. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to successfully open the door to new economic and educational opportunities for women. In 1917, the Bolshevik legislative initiatives provided them with full political and civil rights while new legislation made women legally equal to men. The constitution adopted in July 1918 secured the political and civil equality of women and men. However, the gender policy developed and implemented by Lenin significantly changed after his death. Until the second half of the 1930s, the Soviet Union remained the world leader in terms of providing women with equal rights. However, after the new leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, came to power, the government policy on women and equality substantially transformed. During Stalin's rule, the concept of "a new type of woman" was created. The early Bolshevik policy, which started with a radical liberal vision of individual freedom and women's rights, devolved into an abyss of cynicism that burdened women with a disproportionate responsibility for unpaid work in the household. The purpose of this work is to study the role of women during the early Soviet period and to examine legal and political changes in women's status. The study aims at explaining what the main goal of the Soviet gender policy was in fact, whether it actually changed the status of women and what crucial changes it ultimately brought to them. Using the method of content analysis, the content of official documents, press and scientific literature was analyzed. At the same time, attempts were made to identify and analyze the positive and negative results of the Soviet policy by applying the method of critical research.

Women's Emancipation and the Russian Revolution

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 took place with a number of goals in mind. First among these goals were withdrawing from the First World War, overthrowing the Tsarist regime, and building a new society under the principles of Marxist-Leninism. Although the emancipation of women was not one of the primary goals of the Revolution, many Bolshevik leaders understood that this was a crucial aspect of the Revolution, if it were to achieve true and lasting success. The rights gained by women during the Bolshevik Revolution may not have been granted solely due to a genuine interest in the advancement of women in Russian society.

The role soviet woman played in the 1917 Russian Revolution

2021

The 1917 Russian Revolution is one of the most important and critical episodes in history. It triggered a series of events that concluded in the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism, leading to the beginning of the Cold War. This essay's objective is to demonstrate the participation of women and their involvement in the 1917 Russian Revolution. In particular, the actions the working-class socialist women executed from the February Revolution until the October Revolution. As well as the progress they achieved in the area of gender equality. Furthermore, a brief mention of how the soviets, more specifically Lenin, view women and the role they assigned them.

Women's Lives under Socialism

Labour / Le Travail, 2002

IN THE LAST 30 YEARS the so cial sciences and hu man i ties have been trans formed by a grow ing aware ness of the im por tance of gender. The in ter est shows no sign of abat ing: the books un der re view were by no means the only gen der-related vol umes deal ing with Cen tral and East ern Eu rope pub lished in 2000. Col lec tively, the three volumes deal with the period 1870 to the present day, with a hi a tus from the be ginning of World War II to the fall of com mu nism. But, since Su san Gal and Gail Kligman's con tri bu tion on post-communism in ev i ta bly re flects on the char ac ter and leg acy of "mature so cial ism," be tween them the books can be said to span the rise and fall of the com mu nist exper im ent in Russia and Eastern Eu rope. Their aims differ some what. The goal of Rev o lu tion ary Women was to write a "col lec tive bi og ra phy" of fe male rev o lu tion ar ies in the pe riod 1870-1917 in or der

Struggling to Survive: Soviet Women in the Postwar Years

Journal of Women's History, 2000

Based on propaganda, archival sources, and interviews, this article argues that under conditions of extreme material hardship, traditional Russian culture and Soviet values united to place unrealistic expectations on women who bore the brunt of post-World War II production and reproduction goals. As women faced the conflicting responsibilities of rebuilding the economy and repopulating the Soviet Union, the press bombarded them with images of women who successfully fulfilled all the demands placed upon them. In the absence of adequate support facilities, economic reality shaped women's lives more profoundly than state demands, and most women attempted to balance their duties by privileging domestic concerns over professional advancement, limiting family size, and developing strategies to deal with the difficulties of postwar life.

Comrades versus Flappers: How the Bolshevik Revolution Rolled Over Women's Lives, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

The revised subtitle of my talk is "how the Bolshevik Revolution rolled over women's lives, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." In consequence, I'd like to start us off today with a quote from the novel titled Cement, since cement provides the best quality paving material. This novel, written and rewritten by Communist author, Fyodor Gladkov, first appeared in 1925, after the Red Army had won the Civil War. By 1925 the new Soviet government, which was desperate to revive an economy shattered by war, revolution, and over-requisitioning of crops, livestock, and goods, had introduced the New Economic Policy, or NEP, which lasted from 1921 to 1928.