Civil and political rights of Muslim women in the Russian Empire in the early Twentieth century

In today's post-Soviet Muslim societies a range of issues gained urgency, including the history of gender relations in which once again "women's issue" came to the fore in the national history. Gender balance has been violated for a long time in historical science. The studies mainly describe the activities and experiences of men. Women, who make up the half of population, a long time, have been remained invisible in history. In studies of Soviet historians mainly were analyzed processes of initiation of women to social production, the activities of the party apparatus for work among women, was examined becoming the organizational structure of the Women's Department at the party apparatus. The development of a new direction in historical scholarship - historical feminology, changed the situation somewhat. The first development had been begun in the US and Europe, but in the post-Soviet countries there is a lack of research on the history of women. The presented article is an attempt in some way to fill the gap in the historiography; to investigate the situation, civil and political rights of Muslim women's in the context of the history of the Muslim peoples of the Russian Empire.