Title | Women in the Soviet Union |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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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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Transcript | INTRODUCTION 111 So they all met together at the Women's Conference, following one strong impulse, full of new impressions, filled with the need to give expression to their experiences. Time and place afforded an opportunity for an exchange of opinion on all that had been seen, on the impressions and questions, which the journey in and study of the Workers' State had aroused in them, and in connection with that there came the attitude towards the menace to the Soviet Union by the imperialist powers. In this small volume we wish to describe, not only this Conference of women from all countries, a conference of an unusually lively and interesting composition, but nevertheless of complete unanimity, but also the Soviet Congress of women workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. Not only because this great Congress of 1,000 Soviet women greatly impressed the foreign delegates, but also because two other factors in these two assemblies of women made the event one of international, indeed of world historical importance. Firstly, because these two meetings were living, tangible expressions of the position of women in the free state of workers and peasants, in a society founded on a new, on a socialist basis, and of the position of women in the old order of society based on capitalist exploitation. The realisation of the two situations, the recognition of the vast differences between those two worlds forms the bridge to span the gulf between them. On one side those in whom this recognition was immediately translated into a desire to help to build the new forms which their sisters are creating ; on the other side those for whom freedom for |