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Zhenotdel
thumb| - "Women, Go into the Cooperative" (1918)
thumb|Zhenotdel meeting in Amur Region, 1920
thumb|Kasimov Zhenotdel, 1925
thumb|Chuvash Autonomous Oblast Zhenotdel members, 1925
The Zhenotdel (, ), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s. It gave women in the Russian Revolution new opportunities until it was dissolved in 1930.
Feminist Anti-War Resistance
feminist anti-war movement in Russia
League for Women's Equality
organization in the Russian Empire
Russian Socialist Movement
radical left-wing political organisation in Russia
Socialist League Vpered
Russian political party
Zhensovety
The zhenskie sovety (shortened to zhensovety) were women's councils set up in localities of the Soviet Union after 1958. They were described as "descendants of the Zhenotdel but enjoy less scope and autonomy than did their namesake".