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In Lenin's view, such changes were positive: nations, as products of capitalist economic relations, fitted into classic Marxist stage theory of development. Even Stalin, who differed on the implications for Soviet policy, agreed that nations were an inescapable phase through which all humans communities must pass. Ultimately, they (like, capitalism) would be superseded, but for precapitalist societies national development and nationalist movements were treated as progressive. Lenin drew a furthe
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― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
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Still other rumors held that the ultimate aim of Bolshevik policy, seen in the combination of unveiling and collectivization, was to have all women held in common. In the kolkhoz, peasants ware warned, men and women slept together under giant blanket, and wives became common property.
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― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
― Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
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