Addenda

Addenda

p.2 Footnote should read: I am referring here to an article by Georgia Pearce entitled .4 Russian Exile, Alexandra Kollontai and the Russian Woman Worker, which appeared in the English newspaper, The Woman Worker, of May 1909. This newspaper is not to be confused with the Bolshevik paper of the same name, to which Kollontai refers in her footnote to p. 26 (cf. erratum below).

p. 18 For “In England the number of women workers organized into unions had already passed the 20,000 mark;” read “In England the number of women workers organized into unions had already passed the 200,000 mark;”

p.24 Insert after “On the central committee of the Party there was also a Special rep-” the words “resentation for women workers. The Women’s Bureau of the Party was not.”

p.26 Footnote should read:

The ‘Woman’s Day’ was held by the Party in the following three years: in 1913, in 1914 and in historical 1917 on the 25th of February, the day of the beginning of the great revolution. In the spring of 1917, in Petrograd, the Bolsheviks began to publish the paper. Woman Worker, and the Mensheviks published The Voice of the Woman Worker. The war put a stop to both papers. For more details of the women workers’ movement in Russia see my article in the collection: The Communist Party and the Organization of Women Workers.

p.28 Footnote should read:

But whereas the organizational division of the unions into male and female harms the unity of the movement in the economic field, on the other hand the separation off of agitatory work aimed at the female proletariat is desirable even within the ranks of the trade union organizations. As practice in other countries has shown, this is the only reliable method of enlisting the support of the more recalcitrant of the unions’ female members.

p.32 For “... and where the movement constantly stumbled against obstacles which were not connected with the flaws in the worn out system of bourgeois parliamentarianism,” read “. . . and where the movement constantly stumbled against obstacles which were connected with the flaws in the worn out system of bourgeois parliamentarianism,.”

p.34 In note 14 insert “in 1874” after “She set up the Women’s Provident and Protective Labor League.”