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)...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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

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...

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

Luskina, also a Bolshevik revolutionary of Jewish origin who worked at the Zhenotdel structure. In 1937 he was arrested and executed among other Georgian officials...

Alexandra Kollontai, Nadezhda Krupskaia and Inessa Armand established the Zhenotdel in 1919, a government department devoted to establishing a new culture...

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...

the Soviet Union after 1958. They were described as "descendants of the Zhenotdel but enjoy less scope and autonomy than did their namesake". Although formally...

lower-class women during this time. Women now had a voice in debates and the Zhenotdel, the women's section of the Central Committee from 1919 to 1930, made...

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

was re-organized in May 1917 as a Bolshevik journal administered by the Zhenotdel, the Women's Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of...

Ukrainian movement was replaced by the local Ukrainian women's chapter of the Zhenotdel. Оксана Оніщенко. Український Жіночий Союз (1917 рік). Проблеми вивчення...

Soviet Union and later in Russia. The magazine was founded in 1922 as a Zhenotdel, a department of the Central Committee and local committees of the Communist...

женщины). Feminism portal Soviet Union portal Kommunistka Rabotnitsa Zhenotdel Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Vol. 39. p. 482. Женские журналы...

more difficult, and dismantled the women's associations in government (Zhenotdels). The "New Soviet Woman" was often shown working in traditionally male...

the party's commitment to improving women's station in Soviet society. Zhenotdel, the Russian Soviet Party's women's section, was a particular force in...