obsessive compulsive disorder
...ionship with another man and felt free to maintain both relationships. Zhenya was influenced by the conflict between her mother and grandmother and tended to separate love from her sexuality. The grandmother and the mother both fulfilled their procreative functions for the revolution, in the production of offspring. Societal upheavals were overcome by intergenerational upbringing of family. Zhenya aborted a child in order to not interfere with her party work. The question is left unanswered as to whether she would ever have a child. If not of course, the culture attitudes of women like her might be detrimental to the movement. The new age, however, is an ideological concept and not necessarily what developed historically in the USSR. Kollontai argued throughout her works that the Revolutionary process should encourage women to rethink their sexuality and their roles in society. The clearest example of this ideology is in “The Sisters”. Kollontai maintains that the New Economic Policy clearly failed women. In “The Sisters”, it was clear that the main character’s attitudes interfered with the political values of the time. She entered womanhood during a revolutionary period in which women were taught to be independent. Therefore the woman felt it extremely important to work and enjoyed what she was doing. At first her husband was proud of her accomplishments, but upon receiving a job in which he could support the family he expressed his desires for her to stop working. Eventually, it became evident the extreme pressure there differing attitudes were putting on the marriage. The woman left her husband and was thrust into a life of poverty. Where because of the political values of the time, as a woman she was not able to find a job. In “The Three Generations” the appropriate course of development of woman’s roles is more ambiguous. Kollontai raises questions with each of the women’s roles in the stories. The grandmother raises the question whether love should be exclusive. She felt it necessary to hurt her first husband because her moral ideology did not allow her to believe she could love two men at once. The daughter raises the question of whether it is possible to love more than one man. She felt she loved both Konstatin and M in differing but equal ways. She also questions whether passion is limited to one’s soul mate or can be created through conflict and power plays. It is unclear whether Olga truly loved M or just felt she did because of the passi...