Article Category: HISTORICAL SCIENCES


The article examines cookbooks and nutrition practices during the Khrushchev period. They became a vivid reflection of the contradictory steps taken by the authorities in social policy. At that time, official propaganda assigned a dual function to women: a participant in social production and a keeper of the hearth, who […]

Popova O. D. Cookbooks and nutrition practices in Soviet women‘s ...


The article examines the phenomenon of women‘s autobiographical memory in the context of problems of women‘s social and family memory. Based on the methodological approaches of women‘s history, the social anthropology of women‘s everyday life, interdisciplinary studies of memory, and the anthropology of memory, the subject of special study was […]

Belova A. V. Professional, personal and everyday aspects in women‘s ...


The article is devoted to the study of the activities of government bodies for state support of mothers and children in the period 1945—1947 using the example of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Based on archival documents and published sources, the activities of the leadership of the republic and […]

Suleimanova R. N. «Due consideration for mothers of many children». ...



The authors analyzed social policy related to the protection of motherhood and infancy in the 1918—1920s in one of the regions of Russia. The research is based on a wide range of archival materials. It was found that, despite the conceptual and theoretical progressiveness, social policy in the first years […]

Mitsyuk N. A., Pushkareva N. L., Mukhina Z. Z. «Women‘s ...


The article analyzes the level of involvement of female residents of Stalingrad/Volgograd in public activities during the Khrushchev Thaw of the 1950—1960s. Using comparative historical and biographical methods, empathically delving into the content of sources of personal origin, including oral history, the authors compared expected and actual factors of women’s […]

Pushkareva N. L., Bogdashina I. V. Public activity in the ...


The purpose of the article is to analyze the transformation of the behavioral patterns of Kasimov Tatar women in the first half of the XX c. The specific task is to reveal the role, to show the achievements of the Kasimov Tatar women in the context of the history of […]

Gallyamova A. G., Khanipova I. I. Tatar women of the ...



In the context of the socio-political processes of the Khrushchev decade, based on the methods of gender history, the history of everyday life, the anthropology of academic life, the paradigm of memory, the author examines the influence of the mode of everyday life of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok in the 1960s on […]

Zaporozhchenko G. M. Women and science: everyday scientific life of ...


The article discusses the process of formation and development of the socio-political movement of Muslim women (Tatars) in the Volga-Ural region during the revolutionary events of 1917. At the beginning of the 20th century Russian society believed that Muslim women did not have the opportunity to participate in public life, […]

Khabutdinov A. Yu., Imasheva M. M., Khabutdinova M. M. The ...


Using a wide range of archival documents and other sources, the article discusses the problem of relations between the authorities and the population, in particular the female population, which acquired special urgency and relevance in the second half of the 1940s — 1950s. The cardinal changes taking place in the […]

Suleimanova R. N. “I can’t break the wall of indifference ...



The purpose of this article is, firstly, to describe the ideas about the role of women in Russia in the XIX c., and, secondly, to highlight the most significant positions presented in the journalistic, political, philosophical and fictional works of Russian thinkers of that time. Democratic publicists actively advocated the […]

Voronina O. A. The role of women in Russian culture: ...


The use of several research strategies (comparative historical method, methods of gender anthropology, calling for more attention to female informants and empathy, identifying social dampeners that ensured the mitigation of contradictions and disproportions), several kinds and types of sources (journal publications, medical brochures, women’s ego documents and oral female histories […]

Pushkareva N. L., Bogdashina I. V. “The best adornment of ...


Arguing their ideas, modern western feminists often appeal to science, which increasingly offers technologies that can significantly affect gender relations, and bring society closer to the so-called full gender equality. The article provides an example of such a technology — AWT technology, which is currently being actively developed in a […]

Hmelevskaya S. A. Contemporary reproductive technologies (the example of AWT ...



The purpose of the article is to determine the image of a woman-mother by analyzing the main stories dedicated to motherhood in the materials of the central press of the war years. The article is based on the content analysis of publications in the newspapers “Pravda” and “Izvestiya”, published in […]

Sitnikova E. L., Chernysheva N. V., Shinkarenko E. A. The ...


The purpose of the article is to examine the political career of Ruth Brian Owen, the first female diplomat in American history. The authors set out research tasks related with the identification of factors that contribute to the involvement of women in the political life of the United States, the […]

Mitsyuk N. A., Shulga M. M. Ruth Brian Owen: the ...