Source A ‘What the October Revolution gave to the female worker and peasant’, a Soviet poster published in 1920. The labels on the buildings include ‘library’, ‘kindergarten’ and ‘adult education’
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was more than a simple regime change. The success of the Bolsheviks seemed to promise a new way of doing things — no longer would the ordinary people of the new USSR be dictated to from above. However, the new freedoms and rights for women and ethnic minorities soon evaporated when Joseph Stalin assumed the leadership of the USSR in 1924.
AQA Russia, 1894–1945: tsardom and communism
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