American Workers in The Soviet Union Between the Two World Wars
December 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm | In Blogroll, International relationship, Politics, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian women, Soviet Union, relationship, travel to Russia | Leave a CommentTags: International relationship, Revolution, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian women, Siberia, Soviet Union, travel to Russia, USSR
In the 1920s and 1930s hundreds of American socialists, blacks seeking a society free from racism, Jews who had fled the tsarist pogroms, Russian immigrants and their children, ordinary workers and recent college graduates were fascinated by the Soviet experiment. Between 1920 and 1925 nearly 22,000 American and Canadian men, women and families moved to Russia intending to remain there (Paula Garb, “They Came to Stay: North Americans in the USSR”). These idealistic Americans who went off to the USSR to build the world of the future were quickly introduced to Russian reality – and to Russian romance.
The Sexual Revolution in Soviet Russia…
December 11, 2008 at 5:36 am | In Blogroll, Politics, Russian culture, Russian history, Russian women, Soviet Union, relationship, religion, travel to Russia | Leave a CommentBefore the revolution Bolsheviks had no define policy in regard to sexuality. The “sex issue” was for them mainly economic and sociopolitical and essentially boiled down to the problem of emancipating women and overcoming gender inequality. Sexuality was mentioned only in passing, especially in relation to the family.
Soviet legislation and social policy on issues of marriage and procreation in the 1920s were the most daringly progressive in the world. As early as 1918, women were accorded full equal rights with men in all and privet areas, including marriage and family relations. Women had the right…
Unfortunately, the realities of life that confronted the Bolsheviks immediately after revolution were much more difficult than they had anticipated…
And the costs associated with the subsequent breakdown in marriage and family patterns – unwanted pregnancies, fatherless children, prostitution, the spread of venereal diseases – were great and provoked mounting concern…
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