Feb 5, 2007 · Trotsky took up women’s and many other social and cultural issues. He had a repeated theme of equality for the sexes in domestic life before there could be equality for political or economic opportunity.

Jul 22, 2020 · The articles, speeches, fragments of texts, and chapters scattered across Trotsky’s vast œuvre, in which he tackles the woman question, can be organized along two axes: the emancipation of women as a fundamental task of the proletarian revolution (economic, political, and cultural) and the conservative reaction of Stalinism, in everyday life ...

As long as woman is chained to her housework, the care of the family, the cooking and sewing, all her chances of participation in social and political life are cut down in the extreme. The easiest problem was that of assuming power.

Oct 29, 2022 · Lund, C. Introduction.--From the old family to the new.--A letter to a Moscow women workers' celebration and rally.--The protection of motherhood and the struggle for culture.--To build socialism means to emancipate women and protect mothers.--Family relations under the Soviets.--Thermidor in the family

The classical Marxists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, V. I. Lenin, Alexandra Kollontai, and Leon Trotsky—developed a theoretical framework tying the fight for women’s liberation to …

Together with V.I. Lenin, Trotsky was the principal leader of the 1917 October Revolution. That revolution had a profound impact on the status of women. Soviet legislation provided women with a level of equality and freedom far beyond what had been achieved in any of the advanced “democratic” capitalist countries at the time.

Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (Russian: Ната́лья Ива́новна Седо́ва, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə ɪˈvanəvnə sʲɪˈdovə]; 5 April 1882 – 23 January 1962) was a Russian revolutionary and author known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky. She wrote on cultural matters pertaining to Marxism.

A revolution does not deserve its name if, with all its might and all the means at its disposal, it does not help the woman—twofold and threefold enslaved as she has been in the past—to get out on the road of individual and social progress.

Jun 1, 1970 · Trotsky explains the Bolshevik government's steps to wipe out illiteracy, establish equality in economic and political life, set up child-care centers and public kitchens, guarantee the right to abortion and divorce, and more.