THE NATIONAL PROBLEM AND THE PROBLEM OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT ACTIVATION IN THE CHUVASH AUTONOMOUS REGION ON THE EXAMPLE OF LIFE OF TATAR WOMEN OF BATYREVSKY UYEZD IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE SOVIET POWER

Valentina I. Sokolova, Olga N. Galosheva, Igor V. Kallin

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-106-113

Key words

national problem, the Chuvash autonomous region, national minorities, activation of women and youth movement, women’s departments, Tatar women, national state construction, Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), Komsomol, trade unions, International Society for Aid to Revolutionary Fighters, Batyrevsky uyezd.

Annotation

The article examines the national policy of the Soviet state in the early years of the Soviet power. It shows as well the importance of this issue for the state, the attention paid to it by supreme management bodies. The basic principles and directions of activity carried out by the Communist Party of Bolsheviks for implementing the national policy in the regions of the country are noted; successes and failures in implementing the Communist ideology are shown. The authors of the article indicate that the leadership of the state understood that success in building a new world can be achieved only due to the rise of the culture among the representatives of national minorities to the level of Russian regions inhabitants. It pursued this goal, structuring the policy in the sphere of national-state building. The authors examine the issues of improving tolerant ideas in the international relations on the example of women and youth movement activation in the Chuvash autonomous region in the first half of the 1920s. The analysis of the final materials of the report made by the RC of the ACP (b) representative, Bikchantaev, seconded to Batyrevsky uyezd to establish women’s social movement, shows the efforts of the party apparatus to promote the ideas of equality and freedom among Tatar women. It shows as well the importance of this issue for the state, the attention paid to it by supreme management bodies.

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Information about the authors

Valentina I. Sokolova – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Russian History Department, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (sokolova-cheb@mail.ru).

Olga N. Galosheva – Post-Graduate Student, Russian History Department, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary (olganikgal@mail.ru).

Igor V. Kallin – Post-Graduate Student, Russian History Department, Chuvash State University, Russia, Cheboksary.

For citations

Sokolova V.I., Galosheva O.N., Kallin I.V. THE NATIONAL PROBLEM AND THE PROBLEM OF WOMEN’S MOVEMENT ACTIVATION IN THE CHUVASH AUTONOMOUS REGION ON THE EXAMPLE OF LIFE OF TATAR WOMEN OF BATYREVSKY UYEZD IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE SOVIET POWER. Historical Search, 2020, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 106–113. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-3-106-113 (in Russian).

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