Western researchers on the sources of soviet proletarian feminism in early XX century

Abstract

The article elucidates major directions in western historiography of the soviet regime politics to women in the early Stalinism times (1920-1930-s). The researchers point that feminism evolved out of social utopian theories of Sent-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others of the that epoch, while the soviet feminism is based on the Friedrich Engles ideas. The feminist history of early XX century is characterized by the gender rights movement that prioritized equality, creation of equal social and economic opportunities for women. That encompasses the drive to establish equal opportunities for women in spheres of employment and education. The researchers employ complex theoretical-methodological concepts to reveal not only peculiarities of the Bolshevik engineering while new soviet women was constructed, but active participation or hidden female resistance during that multifaceted and multileveled process.