Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936
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When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they believed that under socialism the family would 'wither away.' They envisioned a society in which communal dining halls, daycare centres, and public laundries would replace the unpaid labour of women in the home. Yet by 1936 legislation designed to liberate women from their legal and economic dependence had given way to increasingly conservative solutions aimed at strengthening traditional family ties and women's reproductive role. This book explains the reversal, focusing on how women, peasants, and orphans responded to Bolshevik attempts to remake the family, and how their opinions and experiences in turn were used by the state to meet its own needs.
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The Stalinist model of the 1930s-40s was a source of inspiration for Ceausescu's regime, from severe restriction of abortions and limitations on divorces to large-scale use of pronatalist propaganda.
“The Stalinist model of the 1930s-40s was a source of inspiration, from its severe restriction of abortions and the limitations it imposed on divorces, to its large-scale use of pronatalist propaganda (Goldman, 1993).”
From Ceausescu’s population policy: a moral or an economic choice between compulsory and voluntary incentivised motherhood? (2013) · cites this paper as Goldman, 1993
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- Authors
- Goldman, W. Z.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Goldman, Wendy Z.
- ORCID
- Goldman, Wendy Z.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1993-11-26
- OpenAlex
- W4230970196
- Cited by
- 234
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 4.89
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5964 d)
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Soviet and Russian History
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- women, Soviet family policy, Russian Revolution, women's emancipation, women's legal status, women's economic dependence, orphans, peasants, Soviet Union, gender and the state
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