V. I. Lenin

Message Of Greetings To The All-Russia
Conference Of

Gubernia Departments
For Work Among Women [1]

Telephone Message

Comrades, I very much regret that I have not been able to attend your conference. Please convey to the delegates,
both men and women, my sincere greetings and wishes for every
success.

The participation of women in Party and Soviet activities has
acquired a gigantic significance today, when the war has ended,
and the peaceful work of organisation has-for a long time to come,
as I hope-advanced into the fore-ground. In this work the women
must play a leading part, and will of course do so.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars

December 6, 1920

Endnotes

[1]
The Conference met in Moscow from December 1 to 6, 1920, with over
200 women delegates participating, representing 5 republics, 05
gubernias and 5 administrative regions. The Conference discussed a
report on the foreign and domestic situation of the country, a
report of the CC. ’s Department on -wdrk among women, the
immediate tasks of departments for work among women, and the
question of mother and child protection. The Conference emphasised
the need to boost production and extend production propaganda and
the enrolment of working women in the trade unions and the
Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection.

Lenin’s message of greetings, conveyed by telephone, was read at a sitting of the Conference on December
6.