The image of a foreign female worker on the materials of the magazine "Rabotnica", 1914-1928

The work is devoted to the women's magazine “Rabotnica” in the period from 1914 to 1928. This period was chosen for the following reasons: 1914 was the year when the journal was founded and 1928 was the Great Break; the beginning of changes in the policy of the USSR. The aim of the work is to determine how the image of a foreign female worker was constructed in the journal “Rabotnica”. The research question is how the way of life of foreign women was presented in the Soviet journal “Rabotnica” and how this information was presented for Soviet workers. The relevance of the work is that it is important to analyze how Soviet journalism represented the life of people living in countries with a capitalist regime. Also, gender issues are very much discussed nowadays, and it is important to understand where the sources of many contemporary problems come from, and at now there are not a lot of works which analyze the images of foreigners on the pages of the Russian press, while this is one of the important factors in the formation of the vision of living abroad. This aspect is interesting because the Soviet government for many years argued that the position of women abroad is much worse than in the USSR because of the yoke of capitalism and bourgeois regimes of government. The magazine “Rabotnica” was chosen for a number of reasons: first, it was created on the initiative of V. I. Lenin and had a strictly party orientation; secondly, it was one of the first women's magazines, which revealed problems in the sphere of labor and problems of life inside the family; thirdly, there were sections about life abroad, which were printed in each issue. Since this magazine was spread out, for many women, articles about the life of foreigners could be the only source where they could find out about life abroad.