The end of World War II and the beginning of Khrushchev thaw after Stalin’s death absolutely changed the way how Russian girls dressed and looked.

The 1950s in the Soviet Union were a time of rebuilding and readjustment following the devastation of World War II. While the image of the stern, stoic Russian woman often dominates our perceptions of this era, LIFE magazine's photographs …

2017年3月15日 · WASHINGTON – RFE/RL has published never-before-seen color images of life in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, from a trove of original video and photographs that was recently discovered in cardboard...

This article examines the views of Soviet and modern Russian historians on the way of life of Soviet townswomen. Being in different ideological conditions, researches tried to reconstruct the history of Soviet women and their way of life using various approaches to the studies.

What this year meant for Russian history, what people looked like and what was happening on the post-war cities’ streets of the USSR. After the disastrous World War II, by the beginning of the...

2019年6月4日 · Five female models and one male model displayed designs by Soviet fashion designers from the leading Moscow department store GUM and the Dom modelei, or House of …

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If these snaps of amazing dames from the USSR don’t melt your heart, nothing will. 1. Typical Soviet women did not flaunt their beauty - first and foremost they were workers and members of...

Most Soviet households in the 1950s were widowed women's desperate homes filled with despair, tears and struggle to get bread on the table. It was Soviet women who were rebuilding the country and the society in the 1950s.

Clothing was unpretentious, simpler than in the days of the Russian Empire. The woman was to look like as a citizen (“tovarisch”), who can “build” socialism. However, during the Khrushchev thaw (late 1950s – 1960s), due to more openness in Soviet society, the western style in fashion began to spread.