University of Houston Digital Library: Socialist and Communist Pamphlets: Women in the Soviet Union

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Women in the Soviet Union

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Title	Women in the Soviet Union
Contributor (LCNAF)	Ni︠u︡rina, F. E. (Fanni Efimovna)
Contributor (Local)	Alexander, G. G. L.
Publisher	Workers Library Publishers
Place of Creation (TGN)	New York, New York
Date	1929
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Women Congresses and conventions
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Soviet Union
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text Image
Original Item Extent	67 pages: illustrations; 18 cm
Original Item Location	HQ1662.W6 1929
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304548~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 9
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_7025254_008.jpg
Transcript	INTRODUCTION November 7th, 1927, which, as an anniversary of world historical importance, found an echo over the whole world, united, upon the soil of the workers' State, numerous friends of the Soviet Union from all countries, and particularly workers' delegations, in the desire to share in the joy of the workers and peasants of the Soviet State celebrating the first great victory of the proletarian revolution. There were many women delegates among the workers' delegations and the "Friends of the Soviet Union." A women's delegation consisting of 21 delegates from 5 countries had already arrived at the Congress of Women Workers and Peasants of the Soviet Union which met as part of the October celebrations, and a great number of women workers came as members of almost all the other delegations. In some instances, for example the Czecho- Slovakian delegation, there were a great many women. These women represented many different sections of their countries, and not only European countries. There were women delegates from the U.S.A., Mexico, Argentine, India, China and Mongolia. There were Communists, social democrats, nonparty women, and "intellectuals," women from factories, representatives of the Women's Co-operative Guilds of England and other countries, numerous delegates from Women's sections of the Labour Party and various British Trade Unions, members