Ability to bear rights or ability to work? The meaning of rights and equality for the Russian deaf in the revolutionary period
This article explores how ideas of rights and equality changed for Russian deaf activists between the revolution of February 1917 and the emergence of the socialist system of welfare in the mid nineteen‐twenties. An analysis of the documents produced in those years by the All‐Russian Society of the...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Historical research. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987. - 90(2017), 247, Seite 210-229 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2017
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Historical research |
| Schlagworte: | Deaf Analysis Equality Equal rights Deafness Activism |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article explores how ideas of rights and equality changed for Russian deaf activists between the revolution of February 1917 and the emergence of the socialist system of welfare in the mid nineteen‐twenties. An analysis of the documents produced in those years by the All‐Russian Society of the Deaf reveals that liberal visions of rights mixed with Marxist‐Leninist definitions of equality, prompting a shift in the activists’ discourse from deaf people's individual inborn rights to their ability to perform labour on a par with the able‐bodied. |
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| ISSN: | 0950-3471 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2281.12154 |