Involving women in the apparatus of the Volost Executive Committees of the Komi Autonomous Region in the 1920s

The paper deals with the study of the activities of government bodies to attract women to the grassroots management apparatus in the 1920s, as well as consideration of the implementation of this work using the example of the Komi Autonomous Region. The study considers certain normative legal acts concerning the involvement of female workers and peasants to work in Soviet government bodies. They legislated gender equality between men and women and proposed to select the most capable delegates to work in the grassroots authorities. The most important aspects of the functioning of the Volost Eexecutive Committees are revealed, including a description of the directions of socio-economic and cultural work. Data on the number of women in the grassroots Soviet apparatus are considered. In general, women’s social activity increased: from 1922 to 1927 their number in the Volost Executive Committees of the country increased from 0.3% to 10.1%, participants in the elections to the Soviets of the Komi Autonomous Region per 100 people from 1924 to 1927 - from 8% to 45% and members of the Presidium of the Volost Executive Committee from 1925 to 1927 – from 0.7% to 2.1%. In the 1920s, the prerequisites were laid for increased activity and a gradual increase in the number of women in government.