Article Category: GENDER HISTORY


The article analyzes the historiography of the Soviet period on the daily life of women-workers of industrial St. Petersburg in the second half of the XIX — early XX c. Soviet historians tried to reflect in their studies the real life of women workers in factories and factories. Censorship, which […]

Severceva O. V. Daily life of women industrial workers of ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.4.11 In this paper, based on the previously unpublished archival materials, the issues of the social status of disabled and elderly women in Siberia in the 1920—1930s (which were united under the general status of the disabled population) are examined. The main directions of the Soviet State social policy […]

Kovalev A. S. Disabled women and Soviet social policy ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.4.10 The aim of this article is to study one of the main forms of marriage in the North Caucasus — the abduction of girls, and a form of violating criminal laws — the abduction of women. The work is carried out on the example of Chechnya and Ingushetia. […]

Pliev A. A., Babich I. L. Woman as ...



DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.4.9 The article examines the process of transformation of ideas about gender identity on the material of Russian culture of XVI c. and the beginning of the XVIII c. The main goal of the work is the analysis and description of differences in the concept of gender and age […]

Ovchinnikova E. A., Troitskiy S. A. Gender identification ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.2.10 The article analyzes the formation and operation mechanisms of the institution for the protection of motherhood and infancy in Siberia in healthcare and sanitation aspect in the 1920s. The early Soviet ideologists during the “construction” of the new lifestyle and the new Soviet woman could not ignore motherhood […]

Vasekha M. V. The policy of motherhood and infanthood ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.2.9 This article examines the status of noble widows in Russia in the XIX c., focusing on studying various forms of social support and pension system. The article gives an answer to the question “what a widow should do” after her husband’s death: what belongs to her by the […]

Semenov А. М., Semenova O. A. The status ...



DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.2.8 The article examines the role of women in the Old Believer, sectarian, Baptists organi-zations in the territory of Vyatka province in the XIX — beginning of the XX c. The study is based on the documents extracted from the funds of the central and regional archives (the Russian […]

Mashkovtsev A. A., Mashkovtseva V. V. Woman’s role ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2019.2.7 Family and feminine issues were among the topics the intellectual and progressive people mostly discussed at the beginning of the XX c. During those years Azerbaijani media played a significant role in the fight for the women’s rights. The first feminine issue in Azer-baijani Turkish-language media was raised […]

Abdullaeva Sh. A., Rostovskaya T. K., Rostovskaya N. ...


The article is based on the analysis of literature and narrative sources, including those recorded in personal conversations. On the example of T. M. Zakharova the author shows the realization of “soft power” notion. T. Zacharova combined work at the Leningrad plant of laminated plastics with public diplomacy; she was […]

Sinova I. V. Т. М. Zakharova’s pivot in the ...



In an attempt to study gender innovations in education in the late imperial Russia, the author has focused on co-education in commercial schools. The practice of co-education, that failed to find strong support in the political and social circles of the late imperial Russia, was introduced privately in the secondary […]

Magsumov T. A. Gender re (e) volution of commercial ...


The reasons for the custom of bride kidnapping in the North Caucasus are investigated. The analysis of statistical indicators of the number of kidnappings, the number of criminal cases, the unemployment rate, the dynamics of per capita income in the region. There are three main reasons for the bride’s abduction: […]

Makhmudova M. M., Koroleva A. M., Makhmudova D. ...


“Yunosti Chestnoe Zertsalo” (“The Honorable Mirror for Youth”) belongs to the signif-icant cultural phenomena of Peter the Great’s epoch with its orientation to innovations. The more interesting is the connection of this book with the tradition, clearly exposed in gender asymmetry. Having analyzed its manifestations (in architectonics, composition, semantics of […]

Kapustin N. V. Origins of gender asymmetry in Russia ...



DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2018.4.13 The article presents the results of content-analysis of the stories of twenty four multige-nerational families. The sample included 121 females, who composed the pure matrilineal chains of great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers and daughters. The elder generation in-cludes females born between 1870—1900 years, with 30-year interval between each genera-tion. Generational […]

Vekilova S. A., Kletsina I. S., Semenova G. ...


DOI: 10.21064/WinRS.2018.4.12 The article considers such a layer of everyday life of Russian women belonging to the bourgeois class, which was associated with their dependence on their husbands. Such a de-pendence was established through the need to obtain an internal passport, which made it possible to move around the Empire, […]

Kobozeva Z. M. Petty bourgeoise and passport: how the ...