The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922

The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 9004526560

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The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM), formed in 1920, was the world’s first international revolutionary organisation of women. Most of the contents of this volume are published in English for the first time, with almost half appearing for the first time in any language.


The Communist Women's Movement, 1920-1922

The Communist Women's Movement, 1920-1922

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Publisher: Historical Materialism Book

Published: 2022-11-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004526556

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The Communist Women's Movement (CWM), formed in 1920, was the world's first international revolutionary organisation of women. Most of the contents of this volume are published in English for the first time, with almost half appearing for the first time in any language.


Leninism, Stalinism, and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-1939

Leninism, Stalinism, and the Women's Movement in Britain, 1920-1939

Author: Sue Bruley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1136248528

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This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1920 until the outbreak of the Second World War. The study of socialism and feminism in the CPGB can be divided into four major areas – the party’s concept of socialism and the role of women in a future society; the party’s relationship to the feminist movement; the work of the party in relation to specific women’s issues; and how the sexual division of labour operated within the party. The author here defines and explains the socialist and feminist traditions in Britain and describes the ways in which they interacted, both at the level of theory and of practice. Sources from party press and reports to interviews with party members and non-party written and oral evidence and accounts feed into this thorough chronological treatment which outlays the changes within the CPGB during the 1920s and 30s in relation to feminism.


Sojourning for Freedom

Sojourning for Freedom

Author: Erik S. McDuffie

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-06-27

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0822350505

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Illuminates a pathbreaking black radical feminist politics forged by black women leftists active in the U.S. Communist Party between its founding in 1919 and its demise in the 1950s.


Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Author: Klara Zetkin

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Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780850367201

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Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was an active member of the left wing of the German Social-Democratic Party before the First World War, and thereafter a leading figure in the German Communist Party, and the Communist International. This book presents mainly newly-translated material and academic essays. It will help to affirm her place amongst the leading revolutionary Marxists of the twentieth century. Almost all of the contents will be entirely new to English-language readers. The contents includes Writings on the Socialist Women's Movement, Critical perspectives on Social Democracy, Guidelines for the Communist Women's Movement, Letters to Lenin, and to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, A Speech to the Executive Committee of the Communist International, and Her Opening Speech to the Reichstag, in 1932, and much else besides.


Red Feminism

Red Feminism

Author: Kate Weigand

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

Published: 2002-11-07

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1421404869

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The untold history of feminist activism in the American Communist Party from the 1930s–50s and its influence on the women’s liberation movement (Publishers Weekly). Drawing on substantial new research, historian and archivist Kate Weigand disproved the conventional wisdom that the American Communist Party disregarded women’s issues. Weigand argues that, despite the devastating effects of anti-Communism and Stalinism on the progressive Left of the 1950s, Communist feminists such as Susan B. Anthony II, Betty Millard, and Eleanor Flexner managed to sustain many important elements of their work into the 1960s, when a new generation took up their cause and built an effective movement for women’s liberation. Red Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women’s movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society.


Under the Socialist Banner

Under the Socialist Banner

Author: Mike Taber

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2021-07-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1642594881

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Recent years have seen a massive growth of interest in socialism, particularly among young people. But few are fully aware of socialism 's revolutionary history. For this reason, an appreciation of the Second International--often called the "Socialist International"--during its Marxist years is particularly relevant. From 1889 to 1912 resolutions of the Second International helped disseminate and popularize a revolutionary aim: the overturn of capitalism and its replacement by the democratic rule of the working class, as a first step toward socialism. Despite weaknesses and contradictions that led to the Second International 's collapse in 1914, its resolutions during these years remain a resource for those studying the socialist movement 's history and objectives. Many of the topics dealt with--war and militarism, immigration, trade unions and labor legislation, women 's rights, colonialism, socialist strategy and tactics--remain just as relevant today. This book is the first English-language collection ever assembled of all the resolutions adopted by congresses of the Second International in its Marxist years.


Engendering the Chinese Revolution

Engendering the Chinese Revolution

Author: Christina Kelley Gilmartin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0520917200

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Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were committed to women's emancipation and the radical political efforts that were made to overcome women's subordination and to transform gender relations. Women activists whose experiences and achievements have been previously ignored are brought to life in this study, which illustrates how the Party functioned not only as a political organization but as a subculture for women as well. We learn about the intersection of the personal and political lives of male communists and how this affected their beliefs about women's emancipation. Gilmartin depicts with thorough and incisive scholarship how the Party formulated an ideological challenge to traditional gender relations while it also preserved aspects of those relationships in its organization.


Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin

Author: Marilyn J. Boxer

Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9780955513879

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