Theme 4: Women Lenin
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- Created on: 20-05-22 14:52
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- Lenin: Women in USSR
- Urban
- Civil War
- Zhenetdol recruited women into crèches and orphanages to fulfill their "nurturing role"
- Some women recruited into factories due to labour shortages
- 1918-21
- NEP
- Mass unemployment as crèches closed
- Factory workers sacked to create jobs for men
- Prostitution became common in the 1920s
- Mass unemployment as crèches closed
- Limited government benefits
- 39% of urban men used prostitutes in the 1920s
- Prostitution became common in the 1920s
- Limited government benefits
- 1921
- Civil War
- Countryside
- Triple Shift
- 2) Household chores
- 1) Agricultural Labour
- 3) Handicrafts for income
- Triple Shift
- Rights
- Contraception legalised
- First country to introduce the legal right to abortion
- Relaxation of divorce laws
- 1917-26 70% divorces initiated by men, often due to news of pregnancy
- Left women without homes and unable to work
- 1917-26 70% divorces initiated by men, often due to news of pregnancy
- Zhenotdel formed in 1919 to advance women’s rights. Led by Alexandra Kollontai
- Advocated replacing family with communal living and free love
- No support for survivors of sexual harassment ; sexual harassment had not been criminalised
- The status of women differed in the country and city and changed over time
- Urban
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