Zhenotdel

Zhenotdel (Rusia: Женотдел), departemen wanita (zhenskii otdel) dari Sekretariat Komite Pusat Partai Komunis Seluruh Rusia (Bolshevik), adalah departemen partai Komunis Rusia yang mengurusi urusan wanita pada 1920an.

Zhenotdel memiliki lima pemimpin pada 11 tahun masa berdirinya:^[1]

• 1919−1920: Inessa Armand
• 1920−1921: Alexandra Kollontai
• 1922−1924: Sofija Smidovic
• 1924−1925: Klavdija Nikolaeva
• 1925−1930: Aleksandra Artyukhina

• Kommunistka
• Wanita dalam Revolusi Rusia
• Wanita Komunis Internasional
• Polina Zhemchuzhina

• Walther Schmieding, Aufstand der Töchter, Russische Revolutionärinnen im 19. Jahrhundert, 1979, Kindler Verlag, München (in German)
• Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (University of Pittsburgh Press, June 2010
• Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, “Women’s Suffrage and Revolution in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917,” in Karen Offen, ed., Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945. New York: Routledge, 2010, 257-274.
• Richard Stites, The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
• Elizabeth Wood, The Baba and the Comrade Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997
• Gregory J. Massell, The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929, Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1978] 2015

• Early Bolshevik Work Among Women of the Soviet East (detail karya aktivis-aktivis Zhenotdel)