Communist Gender Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in Eastern Europe
The CC Zhenotdel believes that kalym [bride money] must be abolished for all ethnic groups in the Turkestan Republic that use kalym, e.g., the Uzbek, Kirgiz, Turkmen, Uighur and other ethnic groups…. In view of the fact that kalym could …
Machine-gunner Mashuk Mahmetova, a Kazakh girl volunteer, fought till her last breath, repulsing three successive enemy counterattacks. Nineteen-year-old Alia Maldagulova, another Kazakh girl, was an expert scout and supplied our command with valuable information. Fatally wounded, she mustered the strength …
Behind the veil lay our political backwardness, behind the veil lay the
illiteracy of the Muslim women, behind the veil lay the hard, slavish life
of an unequal woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is why the Muslim
women of …