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From Slavery to Freedom: Liberating the Soviet Jewish Woman From Gender Inequality

Abstract: From the outset, the Bolsheviks strove to create an official atheistic communist culture and revolutionize the norms of behavior of Soviet citizens, regulating all aspects of everyday life. Guided by the ethos of the Party, Bolshevik culture was didactic, moralistic, and atheistic, as it tried to rid Soviet citizens of religiosity, and as it aimed at breaking down the old customs, beliefs, and manners that characterized pre-revolutionary life. My proposed seminar presentation will focus on the cultural wars that took place in Soviet society, and specifically those that surrounded the attempt to eradicate religion and create a New Soviet Woman equal to men. While focusing specifically on the emergence of radical Jewish women, who were more eager and better equipped to join the public sphere and rebel against the ways of their mothers than non-Jewish women, the talk will explore how gender informed their involvement as “agents of Revolution” in the building of the Soviet system. Ester Frumkin became one of the most committed and angry agents of Revolution, as she attempted to put an end to gender inequality by uprooting the existing traditional patriarchal society.











When: Thu., Feb. 22, 2018 at 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Where: Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave.
212-817-7000
Price: Free
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Abstract: From the outset, the Bolsheviks strove to create an official atheistic communist culture and revolutionize the norms of behavior of Soviet citizens, regulating all aspects of everyday life. Guided by the ethos of the Party, Bolshevik culture was didactic, moralistic, and atheistic, as it tried to rid Soviet citizens of religiosity, and as it aimed at breaking down the old customs, beliefs, and manners that characterized pre-revolutionary life. My proposed seminar presentation will focus on the cultural wars that took place in Soviet society, and specifically those that surrounded the attempt to eradicate religion and create a New Soviet Woman equal to men. While focusing specifically on the emergence of radical Jewish women, who were more eager and better equipped to join the public sphere and rebel against the ways of their mothers than non-Jewish women, the talk will explore how gender informed their involvement as “agents of Revolution” in the building of the Soviet system. Ester Frumkin became one of the most committed and angry agents of Revolution, as she attempted to put an end to gender inequality by uprooting the existing traditional patriarchal society.

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