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Did Communism Liberate Women? Examples from Eastern Europe
Melissa Feinberg Rutgers University-New Brunswick Usually equated in the West with tyranny, Communism in Eastern Europe was rife with seeming contradictions. The system censored books but also ended illiteracy. Finding bananas in a store was almost impossible; yet the average person had more to eat than ever. Feinberg, chair of the Rutgers-New Brunswick history department, [...]