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The Congress of the Peoples of the East was an international anti-colonial conference held in Baku in 1920.
Attendance
Women only made up 55 of the 2,000 delegates, but they were elected to two of four chair positions and three positions on the Presidium.[1]
Speeches
Naciye Hanim
Naciye Hanim, a Turkish communist and feminist, called for complete gender equality, access to education for women, equality in marriage, abolition of polygamy, women's access to work in legislative and administrative bodies, and establishment of committees to protect women's rights.[1]
Grigory Zinoviev
Zinoviev said that land reform was the most important issue in Central Asia and encouraged the peasants to take action against the landlords.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vijay Prashad (2017). Red Star over the Third World: 'To See the Dawn' (pp. 91–92). [PDF] New Delhi: LeftWord Books.
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2017). Red Star over the Third World: 'Soviet Asia' (p. 64). [PDF] New Delhi: LeftWord Books.