Social role of women in the Soviet society in the discourse of “Rabotnitsa” and “Krestjanka” magazines in the mid-1920s

Abstract

After the october Revolution of1917, asolution of the so-called “women’s issue” acquired a special importance in the newly built Soviet state. In accordance with Marxist ideas, the role of women in a socialist society was to be formed in line with the principle of equal relations between a man and a woman. Gender equality was to be built on the basis of the socialization of the traditional female roles of “mistress” and “mother”, which in the system of new social relations should be replaced by the role of “toiler” and “social activist”, allowing women to become full participants in the social and working life. But the implementation of that social program faced a number of serious obstacles. The article discusses the process of formation of the Soviet women social roles of Soviet women in the mid-1920s. in the framework of the discourse between the magazines “Rabotnitsa” and “Krestjanka”, which became the main print organs that communicated the party authorities with the female public. on the basis of the discourse analysis of women’s periodicals, the author considers ideological tasks that were set before the female population in the mid-1920s and attempts of their practical realization by female workers and peasant women.