Thank you for being one of the rare channels to discuss the radical history of International Women's Day. I wish more people learn about you and the work you do. Edit: link to her IWD video on another channel is here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-voeNOrJbrvo.html
I wanna tank u for what u are doing 🙏, u are so great, especially ur willingness to share ur collection of 1st-hand sources & being nuanced, feels like many others only see history as morally good or bad. I hope u have it great now & in the future comrade C: ❤
The socialist organisation that I’m apart of has started to call it international working woman’s day. I think that it’s a great thing considering that a lot of places just have lunches for IWD instead of joining the marches and fighting for woman’s rights. This day was made by a socialist and we should be pointing that out in our conversations around it. Happy international working woman’s day comrades!
I feel like "International" already implies a socialist origin, but that might be closer to a dogwhistle for those in the know, unfortunately. So yeah, that's cool - it's important to not let the status quo assimilate these movements and strip them of their revolutionary fervor. Like Pride itself in a month like this
Finally I could watch the video! I’m a brazilian psychologist and I study soviet psychology (specially Vygotsky and his friends haha). I currently do a research about Lidia Bozhovich, one of Vygotsky’s students, who studied personality and its development. I confess I’m really glad that I study a woman who was so important in the URSS, but didn’t become as famous as other soviet psychologists. I hope with my commentary, more people can appreciate Bozhovich and her great contribuitions to psychology
You're providing a fantastic service by bringing to life a fascinating picture of what life was really like during the building of a socialist society in the USSR.
"Class instinct - whatever the feminists say - always shows itself to be more powerful than the noble enthusiasms of "above-class" politics. So long as the bourgeois women and their [proletarian] "younger sisters" are equal in their inequality, the former can, with complete sincerity, make great efforts to defend the general interests of women. But once the barrier is down and the bourgeois women have received access to political activity, the recent defenders of the "rights of all women" become enthusiastic defenders of the privileges of their class, content to leave the younger sisters with no rights at all. Thus, when the feminists talk to working women about the need for a common struggle to realise some "general women’s" principle, women of the working class are naturally distrustful." - Alexandra Kollontai (1909), The Social Basis of the Woman Question
Thanks for this list! Coming back to this as I'm actually reading "American Girls in Red Russia" right now. About halfway through and I see exactly what you mean about frustration with her portrayal of Anna Louise Strong. Some of the author's editorializing feels borderline petty, but there's still plenty of valuable first-hand perspective cited and explored in the book.
I just ran into your video about a soviet poster in Baku in 1920 on the woman question in that time period. I liked your analysis of the poster. I bought the book The Bolshevik Poster" off of Ebay and can't wait to read it. Thanks for your book suggestions! I'll be watching more of your videos and I''ll happily give you feedback on them.
Ive found your channel very resently and the only thing that comes to my mind when I think about you is that your work is amazing, and I can only feel in owe towards you, for you've helped my radicalization process as well as my general understanding of the real history. May I ask, would you make a video about gulags please? I literally don't even know what those were and therefore cannot jugde if they were somewhere near to "justifiable" (I only know they involved human deaths as did everything during WW2). Also, would you make a video about researching and source finding? please
She already made a video about the Kulaks, it is here m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GbKQwafzHfQ.html (I haven't watched it yet though, it is just in my related videos so I thought I'd send you the link)
It isn't related to the Union, but I read Assata Shakur's autobiography recently, and I would highly recommend it for those interested in revolutionary struggle within the core of empire and Black liberation. I don't know what I was expecting, but as scientifically sober as it is, it's also disarmingly beautiful, uplifting, and at times horrific. For a view into a woman's experience with the struggle, told in her remarkable voice (chapters tend to be separated by short poems she wrote, for example), I can't recommend it enough. For both the initiate and the seasoned class war veteran, there is something to be gained from that genuine page-turner. Also serves as a great break from the tone of drier theory, scratching a more dramatic itch while very much staying in topic. I know for me that was unexpected and much appreciated haha Anyway, great list, love your work, honestly, I'll definitely have to check at least a few of these texts out
Can I ask how you keep your hijab on well? I wear the same style (with a bit of hair showing in the front) but if I do this with jersey hijabs it falls off my head easily. Not the topic of the video but I'm very curious🙂
I'm kinda missed out your recent contents, been a little busy frankly. Forgive me for that🙏, but anyway thanks for sharing all these valuable resources on Soviet Union esp. about women and everything related. We need to spread more information about progressive achievements in Soviet Union and breaking the common, Cold War-era conservative stereotypes about the country to a great extent. We've seen a numbers of reactionary elements of online communist left out there, now trying to appropriate their right-wing language and experience to justify their historical revisionism on Soviet Union and catering the reactionary base with their own brand of "communism". Or in other words, fascism basically. We shall never forget what happened to the early socialist/communist movements in Europe when they didn't address this exact kind of contradiction, why people like Mussolini came into place.
Sorry, but as a muslim I believe you (Assalamu alaykom Comrades) is wrong, because the Islamic religion can’t mix with Soviet values, the same way you can’t have an islamic democracy. these are all not to be mixed like water and oil. Islam has its unique identity and values.
