I've taken a huge interest in the 1920s recently. Ethnic policy, the sexual revolution, early film, women's liberation, experiments in socializing housework, that time they tried to make everybody live in dorms, etc.
The main idea behind those is that all that stuff is traditionally women's work. They knew they wouldn't be able to convince men to take up half the housework right away, so socializing what was traditionally women's work was seen as necessary to women's liberation and economic independence. If there are community kitchens and cafeterias, women won't be forced to be in the kitchen all day. If there are free abortions and universal daycare, women won't be saddled with watching kids all the time. That kind of stuff.
What's the book by the way? I'd love to read it.
Particularly interested in Soviet Jewish studies, as a Jewish commie
I got a job as a Soviet history prof so I could indoctrinate the youth
I took a couple of Russian history classes the cover pre tsarist Russia to the fall of the USSR good stuff
Eh? I was really big on the Russian Revolution. That's what got me into this whole 'actually having an ideology and giving a shit about politics' thing. I've only read two books that expand over the rest of Soviet history, though.
The only russian history I am a nerd about is how the allies intervened in the russian revolution on the side of the whites, which precipitated the entire cold war
I haven't read much Russian history, but recently started The Bolsheviks Come to Power by Rabinowitch and it's pretty good.