The Red Heart of Russia - Brossura

Beatty, Bessie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1150396008 ISBN 13: 9781150396007

Casa editrice: General Books, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX WOMEN IN THE REVOLUTION These was no feminist movement in Russia. People usually become class-conscious in response to class oppression. In the old days in Russia the rights of women were slightly fewer than those of men, but the difference was so small as to be negligible. Their separate grievance as a class was swallowed up in the greater grievance of the mass. Russia's struggle was the struggle of human beings as human beings, rather than human beings as males or females. In the days of the terrorists, women claimed the right to throw bombs as well as men. It was granted them. With equal generosity, the government rewarded them with hard labor, exile in Siberia, and even hanging. They spent their strength and their blood as lavishly, as recklessly, as courageously, as any of their brother Nihilists. When freedom came to Russia, no one questioned the right of women to share it. Instead of becoming1 feminists, they became Cadets, Social Revolutionists, Mensheviki, Maximalists, Bolsheviki, Internationalists, or attached themselves to one or another of the parties and shadows of parties. Here, as elsewhere, governmental honors were largely to the male; but the mundane business of making the world of meat and drink was largely left to women. Women in Russia do what women of the Western world do. At the big democratic convention in the Alexandrinski Theater, I counted the number of seats occupied by women. There were sixteen hundred delegates, and twenty-three of them were women. Many other women were in evidence, but they were behind the samovars, serving tea and caviar and sausage sandwiches. Some wore red armbands, ushered the men to their seats, took stenographic reports of proceedings, and counted ballots. It was so natural that it almost made me h...

Su questa edizione

• Editore: General Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1150396008
• ISBN 13: 9781150396007
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 86