{{Short description|Russian political magazine (1920–1930)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Feminism, Marxism | frequency = Monthly | founder = Alexandra Kollontai, Inessa Armand | founded = 1920 | finaldate = 1930 | country = Soviet Union | based = Moscow | language = Russian | oclc = 4821795}} '''''Kommunistka''''' (in {{lang-rus|Коммунистка|p=kəmʊˈnʲistkə|t=Communist Woman}}) was a communist magazine from the Soviet Union, associated to the Zhenotdel, founded by Inessa Armand and Alexandra Kollontai in 1920.<ref name="baba">{{ cite book|author=Elizabeth A. Wood|title= The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia|url= https://archive.org/details/babacomradegende0000wood|url-access= registration|year= 2000 |publisher= Indiana University Press|isbn= 0-253-33311-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Edith Saurer|author-link=Edith Saurer|author2=Margareth Lanzinger|author3=Elisabeth Frysak|title=Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist Countries in the 19th and 20th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7ePIpI9qVgC&pg=PA579|year=2006|publisher=Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar|isbn=978-3-412-32205-2|page=579}}</ref>
''Kommunistka'' was published on a monthly basis.<ref>{{cite book|author=Barbara Evans Clements|title=Bolshevik Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnIQ1B25EV8C&pg=PA262|date=13 August 1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59920-7|page=262}}</ref> The magazine was targeted specially to lower class women,<ref name="bolshevik">{{cite book|author=Abbott Gleason|title=Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgnmlHr_c0cC|year=1989|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn= 0-253-20513-1}}</ref> and explored the way to achieve women's emancipation, not only in a theoretical manner, but practical, as the Russian Revolution by itself would not solve the women's inequality and oppression in the family and society.<ref name="baba"/> Armand and Kollontai emphasized the low percentage of women in the public sphere – in the Russian Communist party, in economic management, in the soviets, in the trade unions and in the government – fixing which would require a specific effort "to achieve liberation".<ref name="baba"/>
Armand, Kollontai or Krupskaya addressed issues such as sexuality, abortion, marriage and divorce, the relationship between sexes, free love, morality, family, motherhood or the liberation of women from the slavery of men. Furthermore, the magazine's perspective emphasized that women liberation was intimately linked to the emancipation of the whole communist society.<ref name="bolshevik"/><ref name="Kollontai">{{cite book|author= Beatrice Farnsworth|title=Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution|url= https://archive.org/details/aleksandrakollon0000farn|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=0-8047-1073-2}}</ref>
The magazine disappeared in 1930 together with the Zhenotdel itself under the Stalinist mandate.<ref name="Kollontai"/>
==See also== {{Portal|Feminism|Soviet Union}} * ''Rabotnitsa'' * ''Soviet woman (magazine)'' * ''Iskra'' * ''Pravda''
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