Zhenotdel

Ignati Nivinski - "Women, Go into the Cooperative" (1918)
Zhenotdel meeting in Amur Region, 1920
Kasimov Zhenotdel, 1925
Chuvash Autonomous Oblast Zhenotdel members, 1925

The Zhenotdel[1] (Женотдел), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s. It gave women in the Russian Revolution new opportunities until it was dissolved in 1930.

  1. ^ A syllabic abbreviation for "women's department" (Женский отдел).

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