This pathbreaking study reminds us, at a time when such Russian and Western scholars as Dimitrii Volkogonov and Richard Pipes are vilifying Lenin and the Bolsheviks for creating a monolithic party that laid the foundations for the repressive Stalinist regime, that the 1920s witnessed governmental experimentation with socialist principles and lively debates on marriage, the family, sexual relations, child care and rearing, as well as women's place in a socialist society. Taking a social ...