League for Women's Equality
All-Russian League for Women's Equality (
Jekaterina Shchepkina, and Olga Shapir.[1]
The league combined philanthropic goals, education and mutual aid, with political agenda of equal rights. The league lobbied
City Duma to State Duma. Under the leadership of Poliksena N. Shishkina-Iavein, the League also submitted a Petition to the Russian Provisional Government demanding equal voting and other rights for women under the new regime.[2]
Two days later the women received a promise of women's suffrage from Prince Georgy Lvov, head of the Russian Provisional Government. The law was passed on 20 July 1917. The league disintegrated soon after the October Revolution.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780313304385.
- ^ Shishkina-Iavein, P. N. VIA Record: Shishkina-Iavein, Poliksena Nesterovna (1875-1947) Petition from March 4, 1917 to the Russian Provisional Government. Retrieved February 21, 2018, from http://id.lib.harvard.edu/images/8001007242/catalog