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Feminist Women: The Bolshevik Revolution

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According to Richard Stites, in the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Zhenotdel, or Women’s Department, assisted working women into establishing emancipation. But to Russian scholar Lesley A. Rimmel found that the Russian Revolution was unfinished for women, who could produce and reproduce for a male political agenda. It is more believable that the Bolshevik Revolution did improve the lives of the soviet women. This revolution has changed the lives of the women due to political parties because it allows the women to have different outlooks on social change and mass interests. Although women’s parts in major socialist parties did not advance, less than ten percent of the delegates did peak for women between 1905 to 1908. More feminist

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