Change and Continuity: Women's rights

Question 1

Main advocates for women’s rights

Answer 1

Alexandra Kollontai and Armand Inessa led the Zhenotdel in assisting women. However, it was also a form of manipulation by the Bolsheviks to gain support for the new order.

Question 2

Adcock - Importance of Women’s rights to the Bolsheviks

Answer 2

‘women’s rights would be left partially incomplete, and secondary to the authority of the Communist Party’

Question 3

Lenin’s testament main point

Answer 3

1) Did not want Stalin to supersede him

Question 4

Decree on marriage + divorce + abortions

Answer 4

December 1917