10. Women And The Russian Revolution Flashcards
True or false
Women didn’t play leading roles in the Bolshevik party
True
Unlike most men most Bolshevik women came from the ______ & _____ classes.
Upper
Middle
Why were women attracted to the Bolshevik party?
They liked the radical ideas on social reform: they thought that they offered the best way of removing the discrimination against women that existed in tsarist Russia and in industrialized Western societies.
What job did women have?
Wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles and helped to organize workers to join the party.
What did the new communist government want to change for women?
Change the position of women in society
What did propaganda posters and Soviet art portray women as?
Powerful and equal to men.
Who was the head of the women’s department?
Alexandra Kollontai, a member of the Bolshevik central committee
What was the job of the women’s department?
Focused on women’s rights in relation to employment, education and society.
True or false
Russia had greater equality with men than anywhere else in the world at the time
True
Why did thousands of women join the Bolsheviks?
Greatest equality to men in the world
What did the government established so women could work outside the home and be economically independent?
The establishment of kindergartens and crèches.
The government planned ______ and ____ training for women. But the high cost of both means they were never fully ______.
Education
Job
Implemented
What was the family code of 1918?
Gave women greater equality in marriage by making divorce easier and providing abortion on demand.
Why did the divorce laws not really work?
Some men would just abandon their wives and families leaving them without financial support
Some radical groups supported free love and the ______ Of marriage altogether.
Abolition
