Soviet women of the 1930s (PHOTOS)
At the height of Stalinism, when collectivization and industrialization were sweeping the USSR, women were expected, above all, to be useful members of society, be it as a laborer, farmhand, or athlete. You won't see many fashionistas in old photos of this time — they were condemned as purveyors of harmful capitalist values.
This is what the first lady — Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva (left) — looked like, for example.
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF
Women carrying scarves. Sports parade on Red Square
Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/MDF
Komsomol members
Ivan Shagin/MAMM/MDF
Photo reporter Evgenia Lemberg during a shoot at the Dynamo aqua stadium
Alexander Rodchenko/MAMM/MDF
Sportswomen
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF
"The Komsomol calls you to the mine!" Workers at the Gorlovka mine
Georgy Zelma/RIA Novosti collection
Artel workers
Leonid Shokin/MAMM/MDF
Milkmaids
Leonid Shokin/MAMM/MDF
Seamstresses
Leonid Shokin/MAMM/MDF
Haymakers
Boris Ignatovich/MAMM/MDF
Skiers
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF
Clothing and fabric store
Leonid Shokin/MAMM/MDF
Woman in a down scarf
Ilya Rautenstein/MAMM/MDF
Two young women
Ilya Rautenstein/MAMM/MDF
Peasant women
Leonid Shokin/MAMM/MDF
Girl with sunflower
Nikolay Shestakov/MAMM/MDF
In Crimea
Vladislav Mikosha/MAMM/MDF
Gathering hay
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