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 |
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Transcript | 12 WOMEN IN THE means and to insist upon equal training for girls and boys in the work of the Soviets. The delegates made many practical proposals on this question which will be thoroughly examined by the People's Commissariat for Education. They are a valuable contribution to the work of raising the cultural level of the growing generation and the training of young persons. As was to be expected, much time was given to questions of health. In Tsarist times rural areas were almost completely deprived of any medical or sanitary assistance; but during the 10 years' existence of the Soviet Union progress in this direction has been extraordinarily great. The peasant woman does not only want hospitals or maternity homes, she wants advisory clinics on child welfare, children's homes, sanitary and hygienic knowledge. Even the villages in the Eastern Soviet have learnt from practical experience the importance of institutions for mother and child welfare in the development of a healthy generation. A great number of proposals were made at the Congress dealing with the improvement of medical services in the country, and what steps should be taken to arouse the activities of women in this matter. A number of suggestions were also made on the question of supporting women's activities on the Soviets and of drawing in larger numbers of women into the work of the Soviets and other public political activities. These proposals are being used as a basis from which to draw up special Soviet directions. The work of the Congress lasted seven days. As the new masters of the Soviet land, drawn from |