The Communist Women's Movement, 1920-1922

Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52655-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 268, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1144 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM), virtually unknown today, was the world’s first truly international revolutionary organisation of women. Formed in 1920, the CWM mapped out a programme for women’s emancipation; participated in struggles for women’s rights; and worked to advance women’s participation in the Communist movement.

The present volume, part of a series on the Communist International in Lenin’s time, contains proceedings and resolutions of CWM conferences, along with reports on its work around the world. Most of the contents here are published in English for the first time, with almost half appearing for the first time in any language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Taber, Michael

Dyakonova, Daria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Editorial Introduction

Daria Dyakonova

About This Edition

List of Abbreviations

Prologue

1 The Tasks of the Working Women’s Movement in the Soviet Republic

2 Resolution on the Need to Draw Women Workers into the Struggle for Socialism, First Congress of Communist International, 1919

First International Conference of Communist Women 30 July–3 August 1920

30 JULY 1920, EVENING. Opening Ceremony

Greetings by Bukharin. Messages to Zetkin and Kollontai. Greetings by Levi; Wolfstein; Ströhmer; Balabanova; Newbold; Linderot; greetings from Turkey and Poland; Münzenberg; Gopner. Appeal to Polish working women.

31 JULY 1920, 12:00 NOON. The Third International and Working Women

Report by Yaroslavsky. Discussion: Roy; Karymova; Wolfstein. Manifesto to the Working Women of the World.

31 JULY 1920, 7:00?P.M. Delegate and Country Reports

Wolfstein (Germany); Ströhmer (Austria); Linderot (Sweden); Kovács (Hungary); Newbold (Britain); Rosmer (France).

1 AUGUST 1920, 12:00 NOON. Delegate and Country Reports (Continued)

Balabanova (Italy); Maksimov (Bulgaria); Kazhukhanen (Finland); Nielsen (Denmark); Tumu (Latvia); Biti (Lithuania); Roy (Mexico); Dvorkina (Turkestan). Written reports: Norway; China; Korea; Iran; India; the Caucasus. The Situation of Working Women and Peasant Women in Soviet Russia: (a) report on economic and civil rights by Armand; (b) report on liberation from domestic bondage by Nikolaeva. Report on the RCP’s methods of work among women by Armand.

1 AUGUST 1920, 7:00?P.M. Women’s Section of the Comintern

Report on theses of Russian delegation by Armand. Discussion on theses. Conference closing.

Appendix: List of Delegates

Guidelines for the Communist Women’s Movement

Second International Conference of Communist Women 9–15 June 1921

Conference Call

9 JUNE 1921, EVENING SESSION. Inauguration of Conference

Convening by Kollontai. Greetings by Thalheimer; Kalinin; Lozovsky; Gusev; Zetkin; Bukharin; Tskhakaia; Colliard; Podchufarova; Bloor; Chernyshova; Musabekova; Nam Man-ch’un; Kollontai.

11 JUNE 1921, MORNING SESSION. International Women’s Secretariat

Zetkin convening. Election of committees. Agenda and rules. Message from Germany. Report on International Women’s Secretariat by Kollontai. Zetkin protest. Report on strengthening international ties by Zetkin.

11 JUNE 1921, EVENING SESSION. Discussion on International Women’s Secretariat

Braunthal; Bloch; Nikolaeva; Lilina; Colliard; Roland-Holst; Linderot; Csirs; Zorina; Areshian; Krenová Moirova; Vinogradskaia. Kollontai summary.

12 JUNE 1921, MORNING SESSION. Forms and Methods of Work

Glinski greetings. Report on forms and methods of Communist work among women by Kollontai.

13 JUNE 1921, MORNING SESSION. Discussion on Forms and Methods of Work

Greetings from Iran. Discussion on report: Volnaia; Kiiskinen; Smidovich; Golta; Zetkin; Mildner; Bloor; Nikolaeva; Krupskaia.

13 JUNE 1921, EVENING SESSION. Discussion on Forms and Methods of Work (Continued)

Reply to Zetkin protest. Continued discussion on report: Maimunkova; Smythe; Joska; Nam Man-ch’un; Areshian; Wertheim; Faber; Kudelli; Yanson. Kollontai summary.

14 JUNE 1921, MORNING SESSION. Women in the Revolutionary Struggle

Report on participation of women in the struggle for power and the dictatorship of the proletariat by Lilina. Report on the economic position of women by Sturm. Discussion on reports: Wertheim; Volnaia; Ströhmer; Geffke.

15 JUNE 1921, MORNING SESSION. The Fight for Women’s Equality

Report on fight for political equality by Zetkin. Discussion on report: Smythe; Stal’ Moirova; Lilina; Podchufarova; Kaligna; Montagnana; Roland-Holst; Linderot; Leiciague; Bloch; Joska; Ströhmer; Sturm. Zetkin summary.

15 JUNE 1921, EVENING SESSION. Greetings by Trotsky; Women of the East; Conference Closing

Trotsky greetings. Voting on resolutions. Motion on International Women’s Day. Credentials Commission report by Stal’. Greetings to Lenin and Zinoviev. Greetings from Eastern women: Tarijanova; Kaboulbaeva; Koussoumbaeva; Baisbekova. Closing of conference.

List of Delegates

Resolutions of Second Conference

Greetings to the Heroes of the Struggle and the Martyrs of the White Terror

Resolution on International Ties between Communist Women and the International Communist Women’s Secretariat

Resolution on Forms and Methods of Communist Work among Women

Theses on Methods and Forms of Work of Communist Parties among Women

Trade-Union Work

The Participation of Women in the Struggle for the Capture and Consolidation of Proletarian Political Power and for the Proletarian Dictatorship

The Integration of Women into the Struggle for the Proletarian Dictatorship

Equal Political Rights for Women in Law and in Practice

Manifesto to Working Women of the Whole World

Appeal to the Working Women of All Countries

Women’s Correspondents Conferences, 1922

The First Conference of International Women’s Correspondents (25–26 January 1922)

Report from Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale

First Correspondents Conference Resolutions and Appeals

International Women’s Day and the United Front of the Proletariat

Resolution on International Communist Women’s Day

The Second Conference of International Women’s Correspondents (24–25 October 1922)

Report from Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale

Second Correspondents Conference Theses and Resolutions

Resolution on the Organisational Report of the International Women’s Secretariat

Resolution on Work in the Trade Unions

Resolution on Work in the Cooperatives

Resolution on International Workers’ Aid for Soviet Russia

Near East Women’s Conference, 1921

The Communist Women’s Conference for the Near East in Tiflis (12 December 1921)

Report from Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale

Resolution of the Tiflis Conference

Forms and Methods of Communist Work among Women of the Near East

The Communist Women’s Movement around the World

1 Germany

2 Czechoslovakia

3 France

4 Bulgaria

5 Dutch East Indies

6 Soviet Russia

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Taber is editor of The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, 1922–1923 and Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International 1889–1912. He has also edited and prepared collections by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, James P. Cannon, and Maurice Bishop.

Daria Dyakonova is a history researcher who teaches at the International University in Geneva. She has recently finished a Ph.D. thesis on Canadian Communist Youth and ties with the International Communist Movement during the interwar period and has published articles on Canadian Communism and the Communist International.