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A century ago, an international communist women’s movement began to develop a perspective for women’s self-liberation that still resonates today. The record of those early struggles has been translated into English for the first time by Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova, The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922 (Brill 2023). The book provides a history of the greatest working class-based women’s movement to date, through the voices of the women involved and one that has great relevance for today’s socialist feminists.
The liberation and leadership of women was a cornerstone of Vladimir Lenin’s thinking and actions as the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. Revolution could not have been complete without it. It was an integral part of it, and he talked and wrote about it a great deal. Lenin wanted to…