Conservative Socialism: Difference between revisions

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theapplesky, there is no proof that he was a conservative. If you can do so, I will happily let your edit pass through

In 1930 the Zhenotdel disbanded, as the government claimed that their work was completed. Women began to enter the Soviet workforce on a scale never seen before. However, in the mid-1930s there was a return to more traditional and conservative values in many areas of social and family policy. Abortion became illegal, homosexuality was declared a crime, legal differences between legitimate and illegitimate children were restored, and divorce once again became difficult to attain.[38] Women became the heroines of the home and made sacrifices for their husbands and were to create a positive life at home that would "increase productivity and improve quality of work".[39] The 1940s continued the traditional ideology - the nuclear family was the driving force of the time. Women held the social responsibility of motherhood that could not be ignored.

Here is how Leninist social policies were reversed

Women, mainly remained at the workforce, for the majority of the time Josef Stalin was remained, yes homosexuality was criminalised, however that docent change the fact unlike Brezhnev, he didn't put a emphasis on conservative values, and still cited religions as borgieous influences, as well as calling consocs borgeiouse. Women weren't given a nuclear dynamic, they were praised as heroines and fighters, and many went to war. That docent seem very traditional if you ask me. I wouldn't say Stalin is a progressive but I don't think he was a conservative. If anything, he was culturally ambiguous

Anti-religion and state atheism aren’t the definitions of progressivism. Stalin was conservative compared to Lenin as he reversed and moved away from his policies.

I am not saying that they are, but they are part of it, and I am talking in the sense there is a difference between criminalising homosexuality and being conservative, Mao is an example of this. He didn't enforce tradition. That is all I am saying

This article said otherwise. Stalin didn’t just ban homosexuality, he also promoted traditional nuclear family and encouraged women to stay at home. Though he didn’t completely ban women from work, he was definitely promoting conservative policies. Unlike one isolated policy of Mao.

Then why were there so many images of women in the workforce, in propaganda. Conservative, in its definition, requires on a strong influence on traditional values. Stalin did not have this