ABSTRACT
Material factors have united with mental factors in producing a profound social transformation, and the changed position of woman is particularly characteristic of this. The eternal problem of the woman who bears a child, and who is bound by blood to the child so much more closely than is the man, persists even in Bolshevist society. On the other hand, the old position of woman among the broad masses, deeply rooted in the life of the people, as it obtained prior to the war, has not been fundamentally changed by a few revolutionary decrees. The machine is revolutionizing man, and the peasant youths, who are turning their backs on the wooden hook-ploughs of their forefathers, and migrating from the quiet village to the noisy factories of the million-headed city, are a symbol of the New Russia. This young generation is quieter, more reserved, more constructive, because it has no longer to engage in destructive struggles.
