Author: Alice Withrow FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia
Author: Alice Withrow FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia
Author: Alice WithrowPublisher:
ISBN: 9781467902281
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Communism holds, in common with democracy, that children represent the power of the future, and consequently they must be given the best possible care and education. Communism also maintains that a woman who is bearing and rearing children is a worker and is entitled to all the benefits accorded to any worker. In addition, Communism maintains that a woman, in performing her biological function, need not deprive herself of the social life which is the due of every working individual, i.e., she should not suffer, either economically or socially, any privations because she is a mother. She must be given every opportunity to support her family and herself, and she must have at her command -- no matter how poor she may be -- the best that society can give her because the workers of the future are in her care. All socially enlightened thinkers for ages past have held this view, at least in part, but until now few have advocated such wholesale methods in regard to fulfilling it as those which the Soviets have put into practice; mainly because, heretofore, society has concentrated rather more upon the development Of leaders than upon the raising of the general educational level of the masses.
American Girls in Red Russia
Author: Julia L. MickenbergPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625612X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.
Woman in Soviet Russia
Author: Jessica SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Protection of Motherhood and Childhood in the Soviet Union
Author: Esther ConusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child care
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia
Author: Alice Withrow FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Children of the Russian State, 1917-95
Author: Judith HarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Examining the children of the Russian state, this volume details the years from 1917 to 1995. It surveys the social circumstances in Russia under the governance of Lenin, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and investigates how these conditions affect childhood and adolescence.
Women in the Soviet Union
Author: The House of Government
Author: Yuri SlezkinePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.
Deserted
Author: Vladimir ZenzinovPublisher: London : H. Joseph
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description