Obchody Międzynarodowego Dnia Kobiet w Rosji w latach 1913–1991
THE CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN RUSSIA IN 1913–1991

Summary/Abstract: International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time in St. Petersburg in 1913. It was only after the 2nd Communist Women’s Con-ference’s decision in 1921 to proclaim March 8th International Women’s Day. The new holiday was established in honor of the women’s participation in a demonstration in St Petersburg on the 8th of March 1917. From 1922 it was celebrated as a proletarian feast, closely tied to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and trade unions with their slogans on building a new social order. On the 20th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared the 8th of March as work free day. By the time of perestroika, the state celebrations of International Women’s Day were accompanied by political propaganda. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the 8th of March remained on the list of official public holidays of the Russian Federation.

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