Did Women Benefit Under Soviet Rule?

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The paper explains that historians argue whether women experienced advances in freedom and equality under the rule of the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1939. The paper reviews the available literature in an attempt to disseminate the truth from fiction as to the advances, or lack of advances, in society during this time period. The paper relates that the lot of women, particularly those in the lower classes of Russian society, certainly changed for the better after the revolution of 1917. The paper explains, however, that underneath the facade of advances for women, dark agendas were lurking for the taking over of countries such as the United States. The paper discusses how the methods proposed to do so would undermine the society through creating dissension and revolution among the female members of the United States.

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Objective
Introduction
Background
Literature Review
Summary and Conclusion

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"The year of 1917 in Russia began with a Romanov monarchy however, just a few months later the Bolsheviks came into power with their leaders under indictment for state treason. The Russian society was in a state of conflict between the classes when this change of power came to be. According to the work of Leon Trotsky entitled: "The History of the Russian Revolution" a problem exists in that "society does not change its institutions as need arises, the way a mechanic changes his instruments. On the contrary society actually takes the institutions which hang upon it as given once for all." (Trotsky, 1930) According to Trotsky "the masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• The Soviet Union Society under Stalin (2006) The Education Forum online at: http://studenteducationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=82
• Pachugina, M. (1939) Third Congress of the Communist International (1921) "Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses Resolutions and Manifestos of the First Four Congress of the Third International. Online available at:http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm.
• Trotsky, Leon (1939) The History of The Russian Revolution 14 November 1939. Online available at: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/ch20.htm
• The Third Congress of the Communist International Methods and Forms of Work among Communist Party Women: Theses (1921) Trans. Alix Holt and Barbara Holland. Ink Links 1980; available online at: http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/3rd-congress/women-theses.htm

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