Article Category: GENDER HISTORY


The article is devoted to understanding women’s question within Russian conservative thought of the XIX — first half of the XX c., using four dimensions: the methodological, insti-tutional, cultural, civilization. The author analyzes conservative ideas on nature and social roles of women as well as the impact of these ideas […]

Kozlova N. N. Women’s question in the political philosophy ...


The article analyzes the formation of the system of female education in Buryatia in the second half of XIX — early XX c. Presented is the information on the initiators of the first rural women’s school construction in Siberia. It is known that patron M. M. Asheduev, his wife M. […]

Altaeva А. Е. The formation of female education in ...


This article is an attempt to reconstruct the involvement of an illiterate peasant woman Mariya Gritsenko into politics and her behavior during the Great Terror. Besides, the author tries to work it out if a specific strategy of silence could be a kind of protest. The research is based on […]

Krotova M. V. The case of Mariya Gritsenko, peasant ...



Since ancient times in Russia women played an important role in the political, economic and cultural life. Deep intelligence, insight and foresight, diplomacy, patriotism characterize high moral and business qualities of the best Russian women. The second half of XIX — early XX c. in Russia is a time of […]

Korzhova E. Yu. The life span of the abbess ...


The paper deals with the construction of age in the magazine “Rabotnitsa” during the Soviet time. In social context age is especially significant for women, because it has an impact on their lives more than on men’s lives; that is why a magazine for women is under scrutiny in this […]

Smirnova V. Iu. Construction of age in the magazine ...