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 65 in no other country. We visited many factories, and saw that men and women get equal pay for equal work. There is no difference in wages and no difference in training for qualified work. Women hold important positions in factories and are helping to build up Soviet industry. Important cultural work has been done by abolishing illiteracy and by popular education in general. The number of schools is increasing from year to year. Another important matter into which we enquired was that of nationalities. On this point, too, we were convinced that only the dictatorship of the proletariat is capable of giving national freedom to peoples, while the imperialist countries are doing everything to suppress the Eastern peoples and national minorities. By what difficulties, what endurance, what sacrifice, did the Soviet Government at last succeed in making a breach in the century- old slavery of woman ! We found so many free and happy women in the Turkish women's clubs in Baku who told us of their difficult work in past years, and whose eyes lighted as they showed us the fruits of their labour. The Soviet Government is rooted, firm and un- shakeable, in the masses. Nothing could bring that fact home to us more clearly than what we have witnessed at the Tenth Anniversary celebrations The parade of the Red Army, who not only defended their workers' and peasants' State during the civil war, in the struggle against the Whites when they sacrificed so much, but which is daily and hourly training the sons of the people to be brave working class fighters, the tremendous demonstration of the Moscow proletariat, leaves no doubt as F |