A woman during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921 according to the memoirs of contemporaries

Abstract

The paper analyzes the image of a woman during the Ukrainian National Revolution of 1917–1921 based on the memoirs of participants and contemporaries. It was determined that the memoirs of the specified period have extremely high informational potential. Women memoirists wrote about their activities in revolutionary times: a government official, a teacher, a soldier, an underground worker, a doctor, a sister of mercy, etc. The research is based on the principles of historicism, comprehensiveness and complexity, worldview pluralism, the methods of analysis and synthesis, generalization, comparative-historical, biographical, chronological are applied.