SLAVIC 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Economic Policy, War Communism, Nepman
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Society would be easier if one person did the job of a whole bunch of people, but women would still be in these gender roles of taking care of children and cleaning the house. Kollontai says they have less helped the rural women. Set up summer camps at the height of the crop season so children are not left alone to die while the women are at work. Fundamental change of how people view motherhood in the soviet union. She advocates for a lot of freedom, but only outside of motherhood because the collective has to come first. War communism - centralization of everything, bu didn"t have the wealth or good to sustain war communism. Country was floundering economically after the civil war, war communism was unsustainable. Lenin issued policies that reinstated certain capitalist structures - mixed economy, some communist and capitalist structures mixed together. Individuals were allowed to own small businesses, but state would control banks, trade, and industries.
