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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 ...
[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.
They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about abortion in Russia are changing once again.
While Stalin was in exile, Russia entered the First World War, and in October 1916 he and other exiled Bolsheviks were conscripted into the Russian Army. [98] They arrived in Krasnoyarsk in February 1917, [ 99 ] where a medical examiner ruled Stalin unfit for service due to his crippled arm. [ 100 ]
Stalin reversed many of the Bolshevik wartime innovations, and he also set up a system that for some women was empowering. [ 11 ] The Bolsheviks had opposed any division of the working class, including separating men and women to put some focus specifically on women's issues.
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!" [28] Stalin dismissed this as excessive and contributing to a cult of personality he thought might later be used against him by the ...
Stalin was arguably the first dictator to rule through the political police, and that became part of the merger between the KGB and now the way politics works in Putin’s Russia.
Goldman, Wendy Z. Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (2002). Ilic, Melanie, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union (Springer, 2017). Lindenmeyr, Adele. "“The First Woman in Russia”: Countess Sofia Panina and Women's Political Participation in the Revolutions of ...