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Women in the Russian Revolution

Index Women in the Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolutions of 1917, and the events that preceded and followed it, saw the creation of the world’s first socialist state, which made explicit commitments to promote the equality of men and women. [1]

28 relations: Abortion, Alexandra Kollontai, Birth control, Cambridge University Press, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Divorce, Fanny Kaplan, February Revolution, Feminism in Russia, Homosexuality, Inessa Armand, Joseph Stalin, Kommunistka, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russia women's national volleyball team, Separate spheres, Soviet Union, Soviet Union women's national basketball team, Soviet Union women's national football team, Soviet Union women's national handball team, Soviet Union women's national rugby union team, Soviet women in World War II, Soviet Women's Basketball Championship, USSR Women's Chess Championship, Women in Russia, Women in the Russian and Soviet military, World War I, Zhenotdel.

Abortion

Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.

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Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й — née Domontovich, Домонто́вич; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Divorce

Divorce, also known as dissolution of marriage, is the termination of a marriage or marital union, the canceling or reorganizing of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple under the rule of law of the particular country or state.

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Fanny Kaplan

Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan (Фа́нни Ефи́мовна Капла́н; real name Feiga Haimovna Roytblat, Фейга Хаимовна Ройтблат; February 10, 1890 – September 3, 1918) was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party who allegedly tried to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (p), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Feminism in Russia

Feminism in Russia originated in the 18th century, influenced by the Western European Enlightenment and mostly confined to the aristocracy.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Inessa Armand

Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville; May 8, 1874 – September 24, 1920) was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and feminist who spent most of her life in Russia.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Kommunistka

Kommunistka (in t) was a feminist magazine from the Soviet Union, associated to the Zhenotdel, founded by Inessa Armand and Alexandra Kollontai in 1920.

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924.

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Russia women's national volleyball team

The Russia women's national volleyball team is governed by the Russian Volleyball Federation and takes part in international volleyball competitions.

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Separate spheres

Terms such as separate spheres and domestic–public dichotomy refer to a social phenomenon, within modern societies that feature, to some degree, an empirical separation between a domestic or private sphere and a public or social sphere.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet Union women's national basketball team

The Soviet Union women's national basketball team was the women's basketball side that represented the Soviet Union in international competitions.

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Soviet Union women's national football team

The USSR women's national football team represented the Soviet Union in international women's football.

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Soviet Union women's national handball team

The USSR women's national handball team was the national women's handball team of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union women's national rugby union team

The Soviet Union women's national rugby union team played six matches between 1990 and 1991.

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Soviet women in World War II

Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union).

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Soviet Women's Basketball Championship

The Soviet Women's Basketball Championship was the top women's basketball competition in the Soviet Union.

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USSR Women's Chess Championship

The Women's Soviet Chess Championship was played in the Soviet Union from 1927 through 1991 to determine the women's chess national champion.

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Women in Russia

Women in Russian society have a rich and varied history during numerous regimes throughout the centuries.

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Women in the Russian and Soviet military

Women in the Russian and Soviet military have played many roles in their country's military history.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Zhenotdel

The Zhenotdel (p), the women's department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Russian_Revolution

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