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TITLE: New Path (Selected Pages). DESCRIPTION: In 1925, the Women's Division of the Communist Party in the newly formed Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic created an Uzbek-language women's magazine, Yangi Yo'l, or New Path. The journal had an editorial board made up of Uzbek women, some of whom were Party members, while others were writers, plus some Tatar women. Occasionally the magazine published Uzbek translations of stories from Russian or other languages, but most of its content was created in Uzbek, by Uzbek writers, for an Uzbek-speaking public. Yangi Yo'l's core mission was to explain to Uzbek women that their lives could improve, if women would take advantage of new opportunities: gaining literacy, sending daughters to school, working for pay outside the home, learning about their rights under Soviet law, and becoming politically active as representatives to women's congresses, members of the Communist Youth (Komsomol), members of trade or peasant unions, members of cooperative shops, and so on. The magazine was published monthly from 1925 until 1933, and it often began with several political articles explaining programs or policies of the Communist Party and of Uzbekistan's Soviet government. Yangi Yo'l published many short stories, usually fiction, based on happenings in ordinary Uzbek life, with didactic lessons about how abused women might find relief and support. There were also many poems, articles about education, health, motherhood, and stories about women in other cultures and societies. Yangi Yo'l's authors were convinced that the Soviet government would bring beneficial progress and change and that women themselves should actively participate and bring those changes into their own lives and families. The earliest copies, from 1925 and 1926, had print runs of 2,000 copies. By 1928, the print run expanded to 4,000, and in 1929 to 6,500. The journal was published in Arabic-script Uzbek language until 1930. The selected pages from this issue are accompanied by a brief English summary and translation, compiled and created by scholar Marianne Kamp.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Copyright Message

English-language translation and summary, © Marianne Kamp, 2016.

Content Type

Periodical article

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Page Count

8

Publication Year

1926

Source Title

Yangi Yo’l [New Path], no. 6, 1926, pp. 7-8, 21-22, 30

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Family, Women and Education, Women and Rights, Women and Social Reform, Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Uzbequistão, Communist Party. Women's Division, Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbekistan, Women and Education, Women, Colonization, Empire, and Post Coloniality, Indigenous Women, Political and Human Rights, Empire and Education, Empire and Family Life, Social and Political Leadership, Equal Rights for Women, Northern Uzbek, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Empire and Education, Empire and Family Life, Social and Political Leadership, Equal Rights for Women

Translator

Marianne Kamp, fl. 2000

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Familia, Mulher e Família, Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Mujer y Reforma Social, Mulher e Reforma Social, Uzbequistão