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 | 32 WOMEN IN THE I only want to refer to a few general aspects of the tremendous events we are now remembering, because the general, basic knowledge won thereby can in my opinion, show the way to women to all countries. The effects of Red October were tremendous, over the whole world. To estimate those effects fully, we should remember the world situation when the revolution appeared in world history, in the history of mankind. We should not forget that particularly in reference to the position and the demands of women. The imperialist world war had shattered the belief held so firmly by us women who desire freedom so greatly, the belief that only international socialism, only the victory of the proletariat in all countries would ensure full rights to women as human beings. Socialism seemed annihilated by the treachery of the Second International. During the world war women appeared as Canvassers and promoters of mass murder and mass destruction. Only in so far as they furthered the interests of the mass murder, of the imperialist world war, did they receive social recognition. Their activity in really constructive, Creative cultural work, their struggle for a higher, freer order of society was for a long time thrust far into the background. Red October gave back to millions of women, whose attitude had become uncertain, whose beliefs had been shaken, who had lost courage and grown weak, the conviction that socialism is no empty dream, that the proletariat is historically more than the mere wage slave of the bourgeoisie, that the workers as a class are the creators of a new order of society; Red October |