Midwifery care in the USSR.
Tag: USSR
The USSR and Homosexuality Part III (RSFSR Article 154a)
This legislation appears to have been interpreted as a protection against male on male rape, and not an attack upon homosexuality in general. This stance appears to be vindicated by the fact that the Soviet Government (in 1926), invited the German Magnus Hirschfeld – the famous gay emancipator and founder of the World League of Sexual Reform – to witness first-hand the tolerance toward homosexuality in Revolutionary Russia. As a result, during the 1928 Copenhagen Congress of the Institute for the Science of Sexuality, the League stated that the Soviet Union was a model of tolerance for sexual diversity. When Hitler came to power, however, these progressive institutes were attacked and destroyed.
Midwifery in the Soviet Union (1917-1991)
On December 28th, 1917, just weeks after the October Revolution, the People’s Commissariat of Public Charity was formed as a department tasked with the protection of infants.
The USSR and Homosexuality Part I (Article 121 – 1934)
The Soviet Union was a Socialist State seeking to evolve society beyond its feudal and capitalist limitations, and into an advanced Communist System where class, religion and State would no longer be required for the maintenance of an optimum human society.
Photographic Homage to Comrade Joseph Stalin (Birthday 18.12.2016)
A photographic counter-narrative to the bourgeois nonsense that currently passes as ‘history’.
How Mao Preserved Chinese Tradition
Mao never ‘invaded’ Tibet, and never ‘oppressed’ or ‘banned’ religion – but he did declare the Communist Government of China to be both ‘secular’ and ‘scientific’.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 