Svetlana Pavlovna Kachesova,
Candidate of Historical Science, Siberian Institute of Business and Information Technologies, Omsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Transformation of Peasant Woman’s Role in Solving Family Conflicts in the First Third of 20th Century: Consequence of the Implementation of Soviet Project “New Woman” or Echo of the Abolition of Serfdom?
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-4
The Purpose of the article is based on the study of the ego-documents of peasant women of the first third of the 20th century to identify the signs and causes of the transformation of the role of women in solving family conflicts. The methodological approaches of the history of everyday life and gender history were used in the Study. The novelty of the research is determined by its source base. Currently, not so many scientific works devoted to the study of peasant life are written on the basis of ego documents exclusively of female authorship. The study of the ego-documents of peasant men revealed their negative attitude to the changing behavior of women during the resolution of family conflicts, undermining the patriarchal foundations of the peasant family. In the ego-documents of peasant women, on the contrary, conflicts in the family with men are not mentioned. Peasant women describe family conflicts, the articipants of which were women – stepmother and daughter, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, aunt and niece. Such a change in the composition of participants in family conflicts was associated not only with the traditional patriarchal foundations of the peasant family, but also with the departure of men for earnings, which became a consequence of the reform of the abolition of serfdom. In the 1920s, the soviet government began to hold events aimed at constructing the image of the “new soviet woman”, which had a great impact on the life of a peasant family. However, the results of the implementation of this soviet project became most tangible only in the 1930s.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 20/07/2022
How to cite: Kachesova S.P. Transformation of Peasant Woman’s Role in Solving Family Conflicts in the First Third of 20th Century: Consequence of the Implementation of Soviet Project “New Woman” or Echo of the Abolition of Serfdom? // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 55–72. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-04.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: peasant Woman; family Conflict; Serfdom; 20th century; New Soviet Woman; gender History