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Many early Russian feminists and ordinary Russian working women actively participated in the Revolution, and all were affected by the events of that period and the new policies of the Soviet Union. The provisional government that took power after the February 1917 overthrow of the tsar promoted liberalism and made Russia the first major country ...
Women made up 51% of 1,383 people arrested in the Sept. 21 anti-mobilisation protest and 71% of the 848 detained on Sept. 24, according to data from OVD-Info, a Russian group that monitors protests.
In aristocratic Russian society, the greater freedoms allowed to women led to the rise of the powerful, socially-connected woman, including such iconic figures as Catherine the Great, Maria Naryshkina, and Countess Maria Razumovskaya. Women also began to compete with men in the literary sphere, with Russian women authors, poets, and memoirists ...
Young peasant women (like other Russian women) spent far more of their child-bearing years as married women than their counterparts in Western Europe did. [21] Childbirth was dangerous for both mother and child in the eighteenth-century but if a peasant woman was able to, she could potentially give birth, on average, to seven children.
After President Vladimir Putin’s decree to mobilize Russia on Sept. 21, a secretive Russian protest group called Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR) instructed women to wear black and hold white ...
Mikhail Vasilyev said women should have more babies if they are sad about their sons going to war. An influential Orthodox priest said that Russian women worried about their sons dying in Ukraine ...
Klavdiya Ivanovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Клавдия Ивановна Николаева; 13 June 1893 – 28 December 1944) was a Russian revolutionary, trade unionist, feminist, Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician. She was the second woman elected to the Bolshevik Secretariat , serving as a Candidate Member.
Most Russian women associated feminism with Western privilege and, with the exception of those in contact with international funders, seldom used terms such as "discrimination, women's rights, or inequality." [15] Some women's organizations even saw equal gender treatment as a violation of the inherent differences between men and women. Even ...