ussr and woman
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ussr and woman
When Marx and Engels began writing about Communism in the middle of the 19th century, writings that inspired a political movement which later had much influence on Russia, they were quite concerned with the position of women in society and the role feminism should play. They thought that sex inequality is more fundamental than class inequality . They believed that the emancipation of a society could be measured by the progress towards emancipation by the women of that society .
History of the women's liberation and changes in the gender roles in Soviet Russia was forced by the Marxist-Leninist dogma. Lenin expressed his thoughts on the subject of women during a long talk with a German communist Clara Zetkin in 1920. Clara Zetkin writes in her memorandum that following Marxist theory, Lenin was regarding the woman question as a part of the social question, of the workers' problem, and so bound it firmly to the proletarian class struggle and the revolution. As she states in her memorandum, for Lenin the communist women's movement had to be a mass movement, a part of the general mass movement. The revolutionaries had to win women for their struggles and in particular for the communist transformation of society because in his opinion, there could be no real mass movement without women. Therefore, Lenin thought that the first proletarian dictatorship was a real pioneer in establishing social equality for women. He added that they realized the "shameful humiliation of the woman" and the priviliges of the man in bourgeois society...