The Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, after the October revolution, continued with their pursuit of an extreme leftist society. Understanding that in order to reach true equality, the archaic structure of the family must be abolished. Noticing the vulnerabilities of women and children at the time. By the late 1920’s women received equal rights and pay, permitted abortion and laws that enabled an easily attainable divorce. With Bolshevik women departments (zhenotdely) were formed to educate and protect women’s interests. Giving all the ability to reach the heights of the political and social ladder. However, under Stalin’s ruling, these laws were reversed. Creating the social inequality Lenin had originally tried to remove from modern Russia.