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The rapid socialist construction of the USSR, the growth of factories and plants, the collectivization of agriculture, the elimination of the kulaks as a class on the basis of complete collectivization, the destruction of the foundations of any exploitation of man by man, all of these things give ample opportunities for the development of the initiatives and abilities of working women, who were the most oppressed group of working people before the revolution. \r\nMillions of women are liberating themselves from the old way of life and incorporating themselves directly into the work of production. The number of female workers who become cadres is growing in factories and plants, agronomists, tractor drivers, mechanics, MTS workers, social workers and directors of collective farms, front-line promoters of collectivization, and so on. The network of kindergardens, nurseries, playgrounds, schools, etc. is expanding, freeing women from their role as the eternal nanny. The system of factory-kitchens, cafeterias, canteens, laundries, communal homes, dormitories is also growing. A new way of life appears with new production relations. \r\nIn the picture, a peasant woman is leaving the household of her father, an individual farmer and is breaking with the old way of life, heading towards a new life, in a collective farm, at a factory or a plant, and she will become an active builder of socialism, an active fighter for the Five-Year plan. \r\n"The true emancipation of women, true communism begins right when the struggle led by the proletariat against this petty economy begins, or rather, with its wholesale transformation into a large-scale socialist economy." (Lenin)\r\n\r\nartist: Sokolov-Skalya \r\nPublished by OGIZ-IZOGIZ, Moscow & Leningrad, 1932