Algot Gradin’s Reviews > Women, Family and the Russian Revolution > Status Update

(Starting in 1944) “A series of measures were introduced- for giving birth, women could earn an ascending order of awards, beginning with the ‘second class’ Motherhood Medal for five children, to Heroine Mother and a certificate from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for ten”

Craycray

“To achieve actual equality of man and woman within the family was an infinitely more arduous problem (than achieving political equality). All our domestic habits must be revolutionised before that can happen… 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”

”You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain factually downtrodden because all housework is left to them” - Lenin

Tragiskt, nog den mest tragiska boken jag nånsin läst

”These new relations will ensure for humanity all the joys of a love unknown in the commercial society, a love that is free and based on the true social equality of the partners” - A. Kollontai