While the Soviet Union still lagged behind Western nations in areas like technology and industry during World War II, their advances in gender equality were internationally innovative. The female call to civil and national duty was fulfilled in flight, surpassing their conventional positions in fields, factories, and homes. The Russian army included 800,000 women, but the Soviet Union was…
Modernizing TimeOn February 14th, 1918, Soviet leadership reconstituted an entity greater than politics or economics or society- they altered time. The Council of People’s Commissars, or Sovnarkom, was the governing body that made the decision to switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar on January 24th, which was approved by Vladimir Lenin. The Gregorian calendar was…
While Czar Nicholas was beloved by the people and reverently called ‘our father’, a new rival patriarch entered the Russian economic-political scene in 1904. Father Gapon, an Orthodox priest, retracted from his religious duties in order to join the plight of Russian laborers, organizing the “Assembly of Russian Factory Workers” (Freeze 150). Gapon led the labor movement…
