Gender strategies of Bolshevik authorities in circumstances of the Sovietization of western regions of Ukraine and Belarus in 1944-1946 years

Abstract

The forms and methods of implementation of gender strategies of the Bolshevik authorities in the circumstances of Sovietization of the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus in 1944-1946 are analyzed in the article. We arrived at the conclusion about the active involvement of women in these regions to the process of Sovietization. The state was able to mobilize women to rebuild the national economy, to carry out public propaganda campaigns through the creation of women’s departments in the structure of the party’s regional committees. Women of the Western Ukrainian region were often used by the party-soviet authorities as tools of anti-rebellion struggle.
It is noted that the policy of Sovietization of the western regions of both republics clearly contains the main goal of the implementation of its gender component – to turn the «woman-housewife» into an «activist woman» by voluntarily forcibly involving her in participation in public-political life.