Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936.

Laura Engelstein, Wendy Z. Goldman

The American Historical Review · 1995 · 40 citations · 1 references

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Abstract

The origins of the Bolshevik vision:Love unfettered, women freeIt is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of "free love" comes into the foreground.Frederick Engels, 1883 1 [The family] will be sent to a museum of antiquities so that it can rest next to the spinning wheel and the bronze axe, by the horsedrawn carriage, the steam engine, and the wired telephone.

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