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Soviet Patriarchy: Past and Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Olga Voronina ,
Nicole Svobodny  and
Maude Meisel
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Abstract

The myth that women had equal rights and were emancipated in the Soviet Union masks the reality that the Soviet state, like all totalitarian states, is a manifestation of patriarchal ideology. The true democratization of Russian society requires the rejection of masculinist ideology and constitutes one of the most important social and cultural challenges.

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SPECIAL CLUSTER ON EASTERN EUROPEAN FEMINISM
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 97 - 112
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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