This is particularly impressive because as he constructs his position he seems to leave out any direct bias. I think this is really the result of a woman writing about women's issues. Passionate is the simplest word to describe Rimmel's tone throughout his piece. This is not to say that Richard Stites does not care about women's rights because the one thing he made clear in his writings was that he believed that women deserved their rights whether it was economic equality or suffrage. While a clear distinction is made when a person can directly relate to an issue, this is true whether it is an African American talking about slavery or a football player describing why he thinks it is the best sport. Rimmel makes the position of her views on feminism very clear early in her writings. After reading both articles in the volume, I find it quite easy to come to a conclusion about whether or not the Bolshevik revolution was beneficial to women. While I think Lesley Rimmel has written a strong argument, ideally I would like to see a joint effort between both authors. A combination of strong factual information provided by Stites along with Rimmel's opinionated writing would make for a great article. Or, alternatively, I'd like to see Stites use his own argument and write it in more of a tone adopted by Rimmel, as would be his case