O Jenotdel e a questão feminina na Rússia Soviética (1917-1930): o departamento de mulheres do Partido Comunista em meio à Revolução Russa

Abstract

In the context of broad changes made possible by Russian Revolution of 1917, the female emancipation was placed as a goal to be achieved. This study will address the women question in the first moment of Soviet State (1917-1930), when this still allowed them to decide, to some degree, on the demands placed as belonging to them. This question, which has its roots in the French Revolution, in Russian feminism, nihilist and populism phenomena, and in German social-democracy, has its final synthesis in Zhenotdel (Women Department of Soviet Communist Party). This body arises during the revolutionary process as a personification of this emancipatory possibility and, through it, acted in defense of women, sometimes transgressing, sometimes corroborating ideas and practices historically founded in that society.