Women’s History of Russian Military Censorship during the First World War

The article is devoted to the work of women during the First World War in military censorship institutions, a topic that is only beginning to attract the attention of Russian researchers. On the basis of documents, mainly concentrated in the Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA) and the Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA), the article interprets the process of women's involvement in the military censors' duties, i.e. in a profession that in pre-war times was considered exclusively male. The article reveals the reasons that led the Russian military command to allow the involvement of the female population first to work in rear military censorship stations and then in similar institutions in military districts in the theater of war, reveals the motivation of women to join the military censorship, as well as the conditions of their work.