Women’s Question in the Red Dagestan newspaper in the 1920s

Abstract

Soviet experience in developing women’s rights in the national regions can help the modern Russian state to build a democratic legal society. The present research featured the way the so-called women’s question was reflected in regional media. It was based on the relevant publications made in The Red Dagestan in the 1920s. The study relied on the principle of historicism, as well as on comparative-historical, descriptive, statistical, and systematic methods. The author focused on the regional features of the issue. A comprehensive analysis of the publications strengthened the positive trends in ensuring gender equality in Dagestan. However, by the end of the 1920s, this socio-political and socio-cultural problem remained unresolved. The authority and opinion of the male population continued to play the main role in Dagestan and other Muslim regions of the Soviet Union.

Keywords

• dagestan
• dagestani women
• position of a woman
• gender equality
• education
• culture