PITANJE ŽENSKE EMANCIPACIJE IZMEĐU MARKSIZMA-LENJINIZMA I PRAKSE KPJ
Women’s Emancipation between Marxism-Leninism and the Practice of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The question of the social and legal position of women in Yugoslavia was explicitly raised in 1945, afer the establishment of a new, communist regime. The attitude towards the women’s issue in Yugoslavia was defned on the basis of Marxism and then socialism. The paper analyzes the relationship between Marxist theory and women’s issues, Lenin’s and Stalin’s views on the emancipation of women, although the results of the survey show that the women’s issue has not been solved separately: the emancipation of women should be included in the working class issues. The CPY largely copied the models of the Soviet leadership so that the issue of women’s emancipation could not be an exception. Although that approach in practice led to the loss of the particularity of the women’s issue, for a deeply patriarchal country like Yugoslavia, the attitude that the government, or the CPY, had towards the position of women was certainly a novelty that brought about signifcant changes. The subject of this work is the analysis of public (communist) discourses in the USSR and Yugoslavia in order to point out similarities and deviations between these countries.

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