03/08/2023
As we celebrate International Working Women’s Day, we are excited to announce the publication of a new book, ‘Women, Family and the Russian Revolution’ by John Peter Roberts and Fred Weston.
Why publish a Marxist book on women and the Russian Revolution in the year 2023? The answer is that, more than 100 years after the Russian Revolution, we are still very far from achieving genuine equality between men and women.
The women’s question has been transformed into one of identity, to be solved within the confines of capitalist society. It remains a question closely linked to the class issues we face under capitalism.
This book provides fascinating insights into the radical measures taken by the Bolsheviks to emancipate women after the Russian Revolution. These measures transformed women’s access to abortions, healthcare, education and many other basic rights that are yet to be generalised even 100 years later under capitalism.
The book also looks at the partial retreat of these gains under Stalinism, and, beyond this, analyses the role of the family after capitalism’s restoration in the USSR.
Now women in capitalist Russia have lost many of the rights they had won through the 1917 revolution. As capitalism faces its most serious crisis in history, the century of experience since 1917 is full of lessons for today’s struggle for the genuine emancipation of women.
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https://wellred-books.com/women-family-and-the-russian-revolution/