Overview

The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM), virtually unknown today, was the world’s first truly international revolutionary organisation of women. Formed in 1920, the CWM mapped out a programme for women’s emancipation; participated in struggles for women’s rights; and worked to advance women’s participation in the Communist movement. The present volume, part of a series on the Communist International in Lenin’s time, contains proceedings and resolutions of CWM conferences, along with reports on its work around the world. Most of the contents here are published in English for the first time, with almost half appearing for the first time in any language.

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""Until recently, hardly any scholarly literature addressed the history of the Communist Women’s Movement (CWM), with Elizabeth Waters’s 1989 chapter as a rare exception. [...] This book, edited by Michael Taber and Daria Dyakonova, makes a huge step forward by presenting previously unpublished archival material. [...] The women ‘of the early Communist Women’s Movement deserve recognition for what they in fact were: a key component of the world Communist movement under Lenin, as well as pioneers in the centuries-long struggle for women’s emancipation.’"" — Francisca de Haan, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 22 December 2023 [The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922]

""Until recently, hardly any scholarly literature addressed the history of the Communist Women’s Movement (CWM), with Elizabeth Waters’s 1989 chapter as a rare exception. [...] This book, edited by Michael Taber and Daria Dyakonova, makes a huge step forward by presenting previously unpublished archival material. [...] The women ‘of the early Communist Women’s Movement deserve recognition for what they in fact were: a key component of the world Communist movement under Lenin, as well as pioneers in the centuries-long struggle for women’s emancipation.’” —Francisca de Haan, In: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 22 December 2023. The Communist Women’sMovement, 1920-1922.

Author Information

Mike Taber is editor of The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, 1922–1923 and Under the Socialist Banner: Resolutions of the Second International 1889–1912. He has also edited and prepared collections by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, James P. Cannon, and Maurice Bishop. Daria Dyakonova is a history researcher who teaches at the International University in Geneva. She has recently finished a Ph.D. thesis on Canadian Communist Youth and ties with the International Communist Movement during the interwar period and has published articles on Canadian Communism and the Communist International.

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