SPECIFIC FEATURES OF WORK AMONG THE WOMEN POPULATION IN THE ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE DON, KUBAN AND STAVROPOL REGION IN 1920–1930s

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of organizing work among the female population in the ethnic environment in the Don, Kuban and Stavropol regions. In modern historiography, in the study of women’s issue in the South Russian macroregion in the 1920s-1930s the main attention is paid to the national autonomies of the North Caucasus, while the ethnic minorities living outside them (dispersed ethnic groups) still remain outside research attention. The relevance of studying the experience of work among the female part of the population of these ethnic communities, scattered throughout the South of Russia, is due to the fact that it allows us to highlight many issues of state policy in a dispersed ethnic environment from a new angle. It is emphasized that the work among the representatives of ethnic minorities had a double dimension, being part of the women’s issue in the Soviet state and an integral part of national policy. On the basis of a wide range of archival documents, the main tasks, directions and mechanisms of women’s work in an ethnic environment have been identified. The study shows its specificity and features of the Don, Kuban and Stavropol Territories as a sub-region of the South of Russia, or the South-East in the terminology of the 1920-1930s. The system and structure of the leadership of women’s work at the all-Union and regional levels has been reconstructed, including the key role of party bodies in this process. The factors that made it difficult for the female population to work were identified, taking into account the dispersed nature of the settlement of ethnic minorities in the Don, Kuban and Stavropol regions, the peculiarities of their social, cultural and economic development. The mechanisms that compensated for the shortcomings of female work among ethnic groups in the specified region have been identified.

Keywords

• women’s issue
• women’s work
• women’s asset
• ethnic minorities
• national minorities
• dispersed ethnic groups
• the south of russia
• the north caucasus
• don, kuban
• stavropol region