revolution happened. Russia before the revolution was a deeply patriarchal society with a huge divide between the classes, the city and peasant populations, it was also far less industrialised than the west. Interesting little snippet of info about feminism and class, Emmeline Pankhurst banned the women workers of the east end from attending her meetings. She was really only concerned with winning the vote for women like her......middle class women. These are the words of Clara Zetkin as she makes clear, middle class women protect their own rights first, (despite the fact they are also oppressed, they are privileged) "The right to vote helps the bourgeois women to break down those barriers, in the form of privileges for the male sex, that are an obstacle to their own development and activity. For workingwomen this right becomes a weapon in the battle which they must wage for humanity to overcome exploitation and class rule. It allows them a greater participation in the struggle for the conquest of political power on the part of the proletariat with the aim of going beyond the capitalist order and building the socialist order, the only one that allows for a radical solution to the women's question (?). The workingwomen cannot therefore count on the support of the bourgeois women in the struggle for civil rights. Class contradictions exclude the possibility of workingwomen becoming allies of the bourgeois feminist movement. This does not mean that they reject bourgeois feminists if the latter, in the struggle for