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The Zhenotdel (Russian: Женотдел, IPA: [ʐɨnɐdʲˈdʲel]), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)...

November 1934) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, feminist and the leader of the Zhenotdel from 1922 to 1924. Smidovich was born on 24 February 1872 (N.S. 8 March)...

homosexuality, restrictions on abortion and divorce, and abolition of the Zhenotdel women's department. Reactionary is also used to denote supporters of authoritarian...

homosexuality, restrictions on abortion and divorce, and abolition of the Zhenotdel women's department. Stalin desired a "cultural revolution", entailing...

Communists. In 1919, Kollontai was a leading figure in the foundation of the Zhenotdel, the then-new women's department of the Central Committee that was aimed...

and its magazine terminated in May 1925. While the Women's Department (Zhenotdel) of the Russian Communist Party had some success in mobilizing Soviet...

failures. Chiefly, the Women's Bureau of the Communist Party, known as Zhenotdel, openly criticized the youth organization. Komsomol women were provided...

women, giving them economic autonomy and easing divorce restrictions. The Zhenotdel was established to promote these aims. Lenin's Russia became the first...

first director of Zhenotdel, an organisation that fought for female equality in the Communist Party and the Soviet trade unions (Zhenotdel operated until...

rule encouraged the founding of the anti-veiling Women's Division, or Zhenotdel. Few married women joined as their immediate community strongly condemned...

Revsomol. In 1938, she became the director of Tuvan Zhenotdel (the analogue of the Soviet Zhenotdel), and Chair of the Women's Section of the Central Committee...

became director of Zhenotdel, an organisation that fought for female equality in the Communist Party and the Soviet trade unions (Zhenotdel operated until...

freedom among women. The magazine was the main print organ of Azerbaijani Zhenotdel. Sharg gadini was designed for Muslim women, to educate them about their...

Inessa Armand, Lenin's secretary and lover, was instrumental in creating Zhenotdel, which functioned until the 1930s as part of the international egalitarian...

the October Revolution, the Women's wing of the Bolshevik Party (the Zhenotdel) persuaded the Bolsheviks to legalise abortion (as a 'temporary measure')...

Communist Party (bolsheviks) set up a specialist women's department, the Zhenotdel in 1919. The department produced propaganda encouraging more women to...

the First Conference of Working Women. In 1924 she became head of the Zhenotdel (the women's department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of...

Woman') was a communist magazine from the Soviet Union, associated to the Zhenotdel, founded by Inessa Armand and Alexandra Kollontai in 1920. Kommunistka...

organization in Armenia, founded in 1920. It was the Armenian chapter of the Zhenotdel, and had the task to introduce the new role of women in Armenian SSR....

and a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1930, the Zhenotdel had been dissolved because women's issues were officially regarded to...