Household reorganization of the Soviet city in the discourse of the magazine “Rabotnica” in the first half of the 1930s.

Abstract

The needs of industrialization have set the Soviet government had posed a task of attracting all available resources to realize the goal of the earliest transformation of Soviet industry. Household reorganization of the Soviet city in the conditions of accelerated industrialization was supposed to contribute to the maximum exemption of women from domestic work with the possibility of its involvement in production. Proletarian women, the workers’ wives, and social activists were to play a crucial role in this process, creating the necessary conditions for the mass involvement of women in production. Involving women in household transformation projects was important for the era of the development of civil women’s initiative, which was already begins to be suppressed in the mid-1930s., giving way to centralized state planning. The article discusses the process of household reorganization of the Soviet city in the conditions of forced industrialization in the first half of the 1930s. Attention is paid to those projects in which women have been involved and on which they exerted a particular influence, fulfilling, on the one hand, the order of the state, and on the other, changing their own conditions of everyday life.