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Mind Map by Andrew Burke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew Burke
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Russia 1917 - 1924: Bolshevik
Social Reforms
- Women
- Women were given the
right to vote
- Gender equality was
guaranteed
- Zhenotdel (Communist Party's Women's
Bureau) was established in 1920
- Encouraged women to become more
active in political and economic life
- The director was
Aleksandra Kollontai
- Zhenotdel inspectors visited factories
to make sure laws protecting the rights
of women were enforced
- Encouraged women to become more
active in political and economic life
- Divorce was made easier
- Contraception and
abortion were
made freely
available
- Women were given the
right to vote
- Education
- Universal free education
was introduced
- Major campaign was launched
to combat adult illiteracy
- Trains went out to peasant areas
across the country to teach people
about Communism
- Universal free education
was introduced
- Culture
- A group of artists form
the Association of
Artists of Revolutionary
Russia
- They claimed "we will
depict life of the Red Army,
the Workers, the peasants
and the heroes of labour"
- They claimed "we will
depict life of the Red Army,
the Workers, the peasants
and the heroes of labour"
- Censorship - only
posters that
promoted the
Bolshevik message
- Bolshevik newspaper
promoting
propaganda - Pravada
- The Orthodox
Church
- 1921 - teaching of religion
to anyone under 18 was
banned
- Komsomol (Communist
Youth Movement) handed
out pamphlets
encouraging atheism
- Religious services
were banned
- Churches were ransacked
and looted
- Church lands were taken over by
the state and many leaders of the
Orthodox Church imprisoned
- 1921 - teaching of religion
to anyone under 18 was
banned
- A group of artists form
the Association of
Artists of Revolutionary
Russia
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