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[3] Stalin included Article 124 in the face of stiff opposition, and it eventually led to rapprochement with the Russian Orthodox Church before and during World War 2. The new constitution re-enfranchised certain religious people who had been specifically disenfranchised under the previous constitution.
Connecting Spheres: European women in a globalizing world, 1500 to the present (Second ed.). New York, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510950-4. Clements, Barbara Evans (Winter 1982). "Working-Class and Peasant Women in the Russia Revolution, 1917–1923". Signs. 8 (2): 215– 235. doi:10.1086/493960. JSTOR 3173897. S2CID ...
Although Stalin did not share Lenin's belief that Europe's proletariat were on the verge of revolution, he acknowledged that Soviet Russia remained vulnerable. [154] In February 1920, he was appointed to head the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate (Rabkrin); [155] that same month he was also transferred to the Caucasian Front. [156]
Under Health Ministry regulations adopted in 2015-16, doctors had to offer women the chance to listen to the “fetal heartbeat” and show them ultrasound images.
The term Stalinism came into prominence during the mid-1930s when Lazar Kaganovich, a Soviet politician and associate of Stalin, reportedly declared: "Let's replace Long Live Leninism with Long Live Stalinism!" [27] Stalin dismissed this as excessive and contributing to a cult of personality he thought might later be used against him by the ...
Stalin's rule was characterized by the forced collectivization of agriculture, rapid industrialization, and the Great Purge, which eliminated perceived enemies of the state. The Soviet Union played a crucial role in the Allied victory in World War II , but at a tremendous human cost, with millions of Soviet citizens perishing in the conflict.
Long before Stalin imposed complete restraint, a cultural bureaucracy was growing up that regarded art's highest form and purpose as propaganda and began to restrain it to fit that role. [28] Cultural activities were constrained by censorship and a monopoly of cultural institutions. [29] Imagery frequently drew on heroic realism. [30]
During Joseph Stalin's rule the number of women working increased from 24 percent of the workforce in 1928 to 39 percent in 1940. [4] In the period 1940–1950 women were 92 percent of new entrants in employment; this is mostly due to the exodus of the males who fought during World War II. The return of males to civilian life decreased women ...