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Women in the Soviet Union - Image 17. 1929. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 7, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/3590/show/3524.

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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 17
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_7025254_016.jpg
Transcript	SOVIET UNION like a fairy tale from the thousand and one nights. In gaily coloured, hand-woven and hand-sewn shawls and costumes, they bring the products of their labour, the increasing fruits of their toil: carpets and silks from the proudly graceful women of Turkestan and Bokhara, embroideries—the beautiful handwork of the Ukrainian peasant women ; robes of grey and white material from the textile workers of Moscow and Ivanova Voznessensk for the Red Army, " so that our Red soldiers may have shirts and clothing" ; mirrors and glassware, porcelain, sugar—all the products of women's labour. But what aroused the greatest applause was the gift of the women metal workers, a mortar "to stamp out the capitalist class." And they all understood the significance of this tool, the usefulness of this gift—just as they understood the significance of the speeches of greeting from the German and British women delegates, who were received with great applause. Rarely have participants in such a great and varied congress followed the proceedings with such undivided attention, still more rarely perhaps have they all taken such a lively part in them. Corridors and ante-rooms empty, the refreshment rooms occupied only at meal times, and an unceasing stream of question papers in the appropriate boxes. This congress of women workers and peasants is witness of the pulsating life streaming from fresh sources. We have never seen a congress in which so many took part, so many questions asked. 200 took nart in the discussion on the report of Yenuk- idze (Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union) dealing with "Women