Article Category: WOMEN AND GENDER HISTORY


The article researches the activities of women's departments of Yenisei province in 1921—1930 years. On the basis of archival material the author shows the process of engaging of workers and peasants in the socio-political sphere. The analysis is focused on the first period of women's departments work since it was […]

Dolidovich O. M. Women's departments of Yenisei province in 1921—1930 ...


The article analyzes the demographic crisis, population size and losses of the population of Russia during the World War I, a ratio of men and women in different regions and provinces. Factors of birth rate decrease and increase of mortality, weakening of the marriage unions are studied.read in PDF>>>

Morozov S. D. Men and women of Russia during the ...


The article researches the features of functioning of bride theft tradition of the Kabardians in the conditions of their integration into the legal system of the Russian Empire in the last quarter of the XIX c. The analysis of administrative and legal practices connected with this custom is carried out […]

Abazov A. Kh. The theft of the bride as аn ...



This article explores the problems of adaptation among German migrants from the former republics of the Soviet Union. Female and male adaptation strategies are considered under the prism of John W. Berry’s model of acculturation. The research based on the survey conducted among Russian-speaking migrants living in Germany, leads to […]

Krasilnikova O. V. Adaptation problems of German migrants from the ...


The article deals with the women’s magazines occupying an intermediate position between large-scale ladies publications and highly-specialized feminist titles. This self restraint and self-directedness, marginalized position occupied by women publications corresponded really well to the idea of silent and obscure woman. Every violation of usual stereotypes of femininity was met […]

Simonova O. A. Women's magazines at the beginning of the ...





The article aims to explore the circumstances of the origin of the pediatric patronage in Russia. The objective of the study is to prove that the basic methods of work with infants and their mothers were formulated and tested not in Soviet Russia, but during 1860—1910ies. The author uses an […]

Mitsyuk N. A. Tandem “conscious mother” and doctor: the ...


The system of ideas about honour as one of the key components in the noble culture has been a subject of scientific research many times, but as a rule, the term “nobility” referred only to men. However, the concept “honour”, as well as the consequent ideas about standard behavior, had […]

Lisitsyna O. I., Pushkareva N. L. Notion of ...