Chapter 11: The Hujum, Unveiling and Collectivisation in Central Asia (original) (raw)
Muslims across the Russian empire welcomed the October Revolution as offering greater religious freedom and national liberation, see Chapter 6. The conditions of women within these societies were raised at the 3rd Congress of the CI (8 July 1921), and a decision to take action was approved. Konkordiia Samoilova proposed, and the Women’s Secretariat of the Comintern agreed, that Zhenotdel should begin a transformation of the lives of eastern women by initiating economic activities that would take them outside the home
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