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Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year. In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is a list of Eurasian countries and dependent territories by population, ... Russia [5] 144,031,000 ...
In the period following Finland's declaration of full independence in 1917, during the Finnish Civil War and Russian Civil War, Finnish activists often crossed the border into Soviet territory in order to fight in the "heimosodat" wars surrounding Finnish ethnic self-determination and possible annexation into Finland. This ended in 1920 when ...
Women in Russia are not a monolithic group, because the country itself is very diverse: there are almost 200 national/ethnic groups in Russia (77.7% being Russians - as of 2010 [6]), and although most of the population is (at least nominally) Christian Orthodox, other religions are present too, such as Islam (approximately 6% - see Islam in ...
Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-1-56324-798-9. Racioppi, Linda; O'Sullivan, Katherine (1997). Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Ruthchild, Rochelle Goldberg (2010). Equality & Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917.
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In turn, Alexander I granted Finland, for the first time in Finnish history, statehood as the Grand Duchy of Finland and gave the Finnish language official status (prior to 1819, Swedish was the only official language in Finland.) [2] In addition, on December 11, 1811, Russia transferred to Finland the Vyborg Governorate, that Russia acquired ...
Pages in category "History of women in Russia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.