The Effects of the Cultural Revolution (1928 onwards)
{"Image DocumentName": "The Effects of the Cultural Revolution (1928 onwards)", "Image ImageDescription": "Women (& Families) \u2013 Experienced some \u2018liberation\u2019 in their lives after 1917 \u2013 more freedom of choice in marriage, divorce & childbirth (abortion) and their interests represented by Zhenotdel ( ) in the Communist Party \u2013 the family and women\u2019s obligations to it were rejected as instruments of Bourgeois Capitalist Oppression. Cultural Revolution essentially reversed this trend, especially after the \u2018Great Retreat\u2019 (1934 onwards) when women\u2019s traditional role in the family and society was promoted in the face of growing anxiety over the social \u2018breakdown\u2019 caused by rapid industrialisation (e.g strict enforcement of marriage registration; divorce & abortion restricted; family defined as basic unit of Soviet society; homosexuality outlawed). This traditional role was reinforced by the Family Law (1944), which furthered encouraged motherhood to restore the population after WWII. In the long term, women did benefit from increased opportunities in the industrial workforce and the education programmes which went with these due to the demand for labour in the Five Year Plans and during WWII (500,000 served in Red Army), but an equal status to men in society was never achieved.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}