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 | .SOVIET UNION 45 Comrade Krause also referred to the educational work being done, both among children and adult workers and peasants, and said that one of the strongest impressions was made by the fact that women workers and peasants received practical training in the Red Army.] When we sum up all these achievements we are confronted by something great, something almost unrealisable, we know that this great work is continually threatened by new and bitter attacks from the enemies of the workers' State, from the capitalist world. The Red Front Fighters, men and women, have made it their sacred duty to form a united red front with the class conscious proletariat for the defence of the Soviet Union, and to strive, true to Lenin's word, to change the threatening imperialist war, under the pressure and the will of the revolutionary masses, into a civil war for the overthrow of the capitalists and the emancipation of the working class. [Comrade Krause spoke of the efforts of the Red Front Fighters to win over the working women masses, and of the great impression made on the delegation by the Soviet Union's manifesto on November 7th proclaiming the seven-hour day and the reduction in peasant taxation.] Everything which we have seen, she said, makes us realise that the Russian woman's level of life has been raised. We all expressed that realisation and our admiration to our Russian sisters. With iron will and untiring strength they fought to break their century-old fetters, they helped to build up the workers' and peasants' State, to build up |