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 | i6 WOMEN IN THE the great joy of celebrating the mighty victory won by many millions on the soil of the Soviet Union, a victory which they are using to build up a new and higher order of society, the socialist society. Let us rejoice in that victory and that construction, for both were partly the work of women. And it is for that very reason, dear comrades, that we are assembled here; not merely in a thoroughly justified feeling of solidarity, of joy and pride in the tremendous achievements of our sisters who, shoulder to shoulder with their men, have changed the one-time Tsarist empire, the most reactionary State, into the freest community of the whole world. We are also here to learn from the labours and struggles of our sisters in the Soviet Union, and to use the knowledge thus gained in the active struggle, in the work which you here are all determined to carry out in your own countries. Our conference should serve to unify and reinforce, by a mutual exchange of opinion, the know - ledge which each of you has gained by your visit to the land of the proletarian revolution, and which you will carry with you to yovlt own homes. We are on the eve of the International Congress of Workers, the friends of new Russia. There will speak the representatives of all nationalities, all social classes which have an account to settle with the capitalist world order, whose debt to the world's workers is so great, and can only be wiped out by revolution. Dear comrades, we women must also be present at that Congress. On the basis of our discussioa to-day we shall be united and resolute at the Con- |