Chapter 22

This chapter talks about the rise and fall of communism. Communism is a socialist movement that strives to make everyone equal, by eliminating social classes. Communism sounds pretty sweet but the countries who have tried to be communist eventually fail or are under extrem scrutiny and are run by a dictator, like China. The chapeter also discusses the beginnign of the feminist movement. In Russia, many of the lawswere being brought to the government's attention, allowing women to be legally and politically equal, marriage had become a civil procedure, divorse was legalized, illigitimacy was overruled, women didn't have to take their husbands sur-names, pregnancy leaves for working women, and women were becoming involved in the country's movement of industrialization.