ABSTRACT
The real history of Russia’s women under the Soviet regime remains almost entirely to be written; and within it, the specific history of women. But the Soviet case presents specific difficulties. In Western democracies, feminist historians can rely on an already well-established tradition of grounded historiography, and use reliable sources—archives and oral testimonies— to complement its blind spots. Furthermore, they receive support from a well-developed body of feminist ideas and studies, whose legitimacy has eventually been recognized, and which allows them to argue for the ‘gendering’ of history as a whole.
