The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-20
Woman in Soviet Russia

is, the Russian woman. waiting for her Mex
rassov to sing about her
Called to Life by Revolution.
And how many Of these Agapkinas has the Boil
shevik Revolution called into life! How many
Agapkinas has been brought up by womens
section?
Abroad they will not understand nor even believe.
that the peasantess Agapkna, cast away In a dark,
distant village, is corresponding with one of the
sections of the horrible" Central Committee of the
c. P. Rs-wtth the women's section, is receiving
advice and instructions from and is reporting to it
concerning her small but important work
:. And the womens section does well to cultivate
such connections For such Agapkina Is worth
more than twenty travelled urban women propa-
gandists who fash up over the village like meteor
The Agapkinas are the best and most powerful yeast
Cor the village.
Some Quiet: Others Otherwise.
But there is another type Of Boshevik peasantess
IN the villages. II Anna Agapkina inclines towards
quiet intense cultural work. others carry on in the
political eauldron Of party work The woman OF
whom want to ten requested me not to publish
her name, and hence, In contradiction to Agapkina,
here call her-let us say, Kulkowa
came to know her under the following, crcum-
new methods OF agronomy took place under my
craftsmanship Luminaries of agricultural science
spoke before a thousand-headed peasant audience.
But unfortunately these luminaries do not know how
to speak to the Their voices are more suit
able for academic disputes. In addition, some of
these luminaries tended to portray the future
nomic development of the country In extremely
gloomy colors.
Made Things snappy.
The meeting passed OF gloomily. Then came the
turn of the peasantess Kuikowa, and gave her the
floor. A young woman with a peasantkerchief on
her head stepped upon the platform. And the first
few sentences which she uttered caused the mass
Of hearers to prick up their ears, woke them from
the deep sleep of Sboredome. The passionate up
right speech of person who has brought along with
her from remote little village her great longing
after the new her entire hate of the old her entire
fanatical faith In the creative power of the Revo
luton, Immediately set the entire peasant audience
ahre. Her speech was interrupted constantly by
laundering applause which enhanced the pathos of
the woman even more.
She dashed the intellectuals of little faith who did
not know the village of today. who had been asleep
during its awakening and measure the present trend
of development with the usual prerevolutionary
standard.
The speech made the greatest impression upon all
Of us. The simple peasant woman taught the pessi
mistic scholars such thorough lesson that the lat
ter were embarrassed for an answer
Came From Poor Family.
Some time later, received letter from Kulikowa
which, to be sure not intended for publication
but which, with changing of the name and omission
Of few passages may be reproduced here.
Kulikowa comes from a very poor peasant family
She has not attended grammar school, She
learned reading by herself. One day she was
seized with passionate desire to write revolution
airy poems. Hunger drove her to the Capital For
several years she worked in Petersburg factories
Her husband was worker too. In 1917 she joined
the Communist Party. In 1921 starvation drove her
back to the village again: aeat ~ to..3 u.a a7r
"one does not dare recall how one bore this star
walton with three small children"
She goes to district city:
Here became a member of the bureau for the
organization. Of the petty-bourgeois women, then
Instructor for the nourishment of children in the