[CondoleezzaProtege]

[AZJeep]

demanding bread for the children.
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There were shortages of food in Russia during WWI.
People protested and communists won by promising to take care about that.
As a results, there were two massive starvation waves, in 1920ies and 1930ies, when millions died of starvation and cannibalism was widespread!
That in Russia, which was world major producer and exporter of foodstuff.
Be careful what are you asking for!

[marktwain]

“The fevered dedication to women’s liberation of the Soviets was radically altered by the security state that emerged amid Russia’s civil war — a conflict funded by Western powers in an effort to restore the rule of private property — and the subsequent rise of Stalinism.”

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Typical excuse of Maxist-Leninists - The Capitalists made me do it.

The same “security state” has been part of Communism in every country where communism has been implemented.

[Angelino97]

Russia had strong currents of feminism, going back to Catherine the Great who ruled the empire from 1762 to 1796

I don't think one strong female monarch proves anything. England had Elizabeth I, but I wouldn't tie that to today's English feminism. (They also had Queen Anne, but she wasn't all that powerful.)

[AZJeep]

Women demanded equality.
As a results, they got on top of traditional home chores a full time job to take care off. Plus standing in lines for food overnight.
Men mostly quit doing anything, so Soviet economy pretty much relied on women to do most of the work.

[nicollo]

Bolsheviks ... legalized ... homosexuality

And then they didn't under Stalin. The author is just projecting herself upon the past.

[Orosius]

Women were equal in the Gulag, too. They had the same brutal production quotas and starvation rations as the men.

[Secret Agent Man]

Socialism makes women even more miserable, faster.