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Abstract / Summary

7 November 1959 marked the 42nd commemoration of the October Socialist Revolution throughout the Soviet Union. This article documented the visit of a delegation to Jakarta circa October 1959 from the Presidiums of the Supreme Soviets. A female delegate, Nizoramo Zaripova, was briefly the Acting Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tadzikistan during January-February 1984. She spoke to Indonesian women about the advances made by Soviet women in positions of government, in the workforce, in education, industry, agriculture etc. She highlighted the October Revolution of 1917, which marked the formation of Soviet Russia, as the turning point in the lives of Russian women, from traditional oppression to social equality with men. She said that Russian wives and mothers who lost husbands and children had shed far too many tears in the last war (World War II) and hence, Soviet women – just like Indonesian women – were dedicated to ending the arms race, to safeguard the future for their children. KEYWORDS: 7 November; Anti-war;
Api Kartini; Disarmament; Gender equality; Indonesia; Indonesian women; Jakarta; Nizoramo Zaripova; Russian women;
Soviet Union;
Soviet women; Transnational activism; Transnational solidarity

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Content Type

Periodical article

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Format

Text

Page Count

2

Publication Year

1959

Source Title

Api Kartini, 1959, p. NA

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Transnational Women’s Movement, Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; Unión Soviética, União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; União Soviética, USSR (Historical Place), Soviet Union (Historical Place), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Historical Place), Indonesia, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Post Colonial and Transnationalism, Opposition to Imperialism, Nationalism and Independence Movements, Russians, Indonesians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Post Colonial and Transnationalism, Opposition to Imperialism, Nationalism and Independence Movements

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; Unión Soviética, União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas; União Soviética, USSR (Historical Place), Soviet Union (Historical Place)