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 | i8 WOMEN IN THE day of their victory will be the day of their defeat, for, even on the first day, they won't know what to do." That is what the capitalist paper "Rech" wrote. But the Bolshevik Party, at the head of the workers, guiding their struggles, knew what the masses wanted, knew what their vital interests demanded. The Bolshevik Party knew that, once at the helm, it could go on fighting for the demands of the world working class. The demands of the international proletariat were everywhere to the forefront in the October days, and lightened us in our struggles. In the first years after the October revolution, our land was engaged in bitter civil war. The memory of those events is beginning to pale, but those years, the years of civil war, will never fade from the memory of the working masses of our Union. I » In 1919, I was travelling by steamer on the Volga and Kama, in districts where but a short while before, the fight against the Whites was raging. We were told a great deal about the fighting. Mothers told us how children joined their parents in the struggle against the Whites. There was a meeting in a large factory, and someone told how the Whites, on entering the town, had shot all young persons found in the club. And as the funeral march was sung, everybody present was crying, for there was not one mother whose child had not fallen a victim to the Whites. The cruelty of the bourgeoisie, the landlords and the capitalists, in their fight against the Reds, the cruelty with which buildings, factories, crops were 1 |