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, and their interests were traditionally limited to the family. However, the residents of the Volga-Ural region did not share this point of view. In fact, since the beginning of the 20th century, the development of the social movement among Tatar women was quite different from the development of the social movement among other Muslim peoples of Russia. It was characterized by the presence of a middle class in urban Muslim communities, within which various forms of inclusion of women in society were institutionalized, and the events of the 1917 Revolution led to their final formation in the regional and national contexts. The main novelty of this article lies in the fact that, based on the analysis of a wide range of sources, it became possible to analyze the position of Tatar women on the development of their civil and political rights, participation in national bodies and self-government bodies in 1917.
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