The Role of Russian Feminists in the Revolutionary Russia of the Early 20th Century

Despite the hyper reactionary, hyper anti revolutionary tenor of the 18 eighties and 18 nineties, there were still plenty of progressive social reforms that accompanied the regime's attempt to modernize. Among these reforms was a great push to increase access to education. An entire generation of young women now advanced through what we would to day consider high school. The universities were still almost exclusively male, though by now we are starting to hit the first round of trail blazing women who pushed for admittance into the universities and then attained degrees. They were still, however, very much the exception rather than the rule.