| Summary: | Introduction. Despite there are quite a number of works dealing with the
history of Kalmykia’s Communist party organizations, the former provide virtually no
description of the latter’s structure, and, specifically, nothing has been published to
characterize activities of the Women’s Affairs Department within Kalmyk Oblast Party
Committee. So, the paper represents a first consideration of the issue. Goals. The study
seeks to analyze Kalmyk Oblast Party Committee’s work among women in 1921–1928.
Materials. The paper primarily examines materials housed by the National Archive
of Kalmykia and containing valuable insights into activities of Kalmyk Oblast’s
departments, including that of women’s affairs. Conclusions. The work concludes
that Kalmykia’s party organizations would undertake conscious efforts for political
indoctrination of women and their active involvement into industrial and agricultural
development of the country, party, Komsomol, Soviet and trade union movements. The
involvement of women into industrial production by regional party organizations also
served to completely transform rural women’s life and attitudes.
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