HIEU 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Alimony, Totalitarianism, Radical Change
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Hieu 140 textbook notes women in 20th century europe, chapter 3: women in the. Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes of the inter-war years. Lenin: women are subjected by domesticity, and socialism can help them: promised that women would be free after russian revolution. Zhenotdel: need to promote women"s vocational skills, advancement of women in. First five year plan: collectivization of agriculture: state confiscated privately-owned farmers, made them into state-owned collectives, stalin: property-owners (kulaks) enemies of regime and must be gotten rid of as a class. If you resisted, executed, exiles, imprisoned in labor camps: famine due to confiscation of food supplies, many women resisted, so government abolished zhenotdel. Stalin: women massive reserve labor force important in nation whose male population had been reduced by war: goal of five year plans was growth of heavy industry, and women were called into fill these positions.
