For the citizens of Russia, their civil rights were constantly challenged and changed between the years 1855 and 1964. Between the autocracy of the Tsars and the borderline-dictatorships of the Communist leaders, through the 1917 Revolution and the Purges of the 1930s, the civil rights of many were compromised, while others’ civil rights were maintained or increased. For the majority, the actuality was a fluctuation rather than a straight increase or decrease. While equality was claimed at several points by different leaders, different groups were often discriminated against or refused certain rights because of certain factors, including ethnicity, religion, class and gender.
One factor that contributed towards the differing of civil …show more content…
On the 28th of June 1956, strikes and anti-Communist mass demonstrations began in Poland, which were met with massive retaliation and many were killed, prompting Khrushchev and other leaders to pay a visit to Poland. This visit was seen as disgraceful by some as the Polish government were not informed of Khrushchev’s intentions. It was viewed by many that Khrushchev and the Soviet Union were not respecting the rights of Poland as a whole and the individual rights of the people to strike and demonstrate. However, this did contribute to Poland having civil rights independent of the Soviet Union in the ‘Polish October’ of the same year.
Tsarist Russia was a very difficult place to live in for those with an ethnicity other than Russian, due to the harsh policy of Russification, and while the Communist leaders were not the ones to begin such processes as Russification, they did not do anything to directly counteract or stop it. Russification, along with Stalin’s Purges in the 1930s, made life for those not of Russian origin very difficult. However, apart from the Purges, the Communist leaders did not do much that directly targeted …show more content…
There were very few women’s rights: a married woman needed her husband to agree before she could get a job, ‘enter higher education or to obtain a separate passport’. Also, widows were only entitled to a small proportion of their husband's’ property as most of it would go to any male family members. However, these policies ‘did not fully reflect the actual relation of men and women, especially in peasant society’. Peasant women had a far more important role within the family and the household and were almost, sometimes completely, equal to
One factor that contributed towards the differing of civil …show more content…
On the 28th of June 1956, strikes and anti-Communist mass demonstrations began in Poland, which were met with massive retaliation and many were killed, prompting Khrushchev and other leaders to pay a visit to Poland. This visit was seen as disgraceful by some as the Polish government were not informed of Khrushchev’s intentions. It was viewed by many that Khrushchev and the Soviet Union were not respecting the rights of Poland as a whole and the individual rights of the people to strike and demonstrate. However, this did contribute to Poland having civil rights independent of the Soviet Union in the ‘Polish October’ of the same year.
Tsarist Russia was a very difficult place to live in for those with an ethnicity other than Russian, due to the harsh policy of Russification, and while the Communist leaders were not the ones to begin such processes as Russification, they did not do anything to directly counteract or stop it. Russification, along with Stalin’s Purges in the 1930s, made life for those not of Russian origin very difficult. However, apart from the Purges, the Communist leaders did not do much that directly targeted …show more content…
There were very few women’s rights: a married woman needed her husband to agree before she could get a job, ‘enter higher education or to obtain a separate passport’. Also, widows were only entitled to a small proportion of their husband's’ property as most of it would go to any male family members. However, these policies ‘did not fully reflect the actual relation of men and women, especially in peasant society’. Peasant women had a far more important role within the family and the household and were almost, sometimes completely, equal to