Women and zinovievist opposition in Leningrad: a prosopographic study

The article is based on the materials of personal files of members of Zinovievist opposition; it contains the analysis of composition of that group and the attempt to track the fates of its feminine members. The author analyses the national and age composition of group, and the party experience of its feminine members (the time of joining the Bolshevik Party). The article embraces the period of 1924-1970 years, from the formation of the Zinovievist opposition till the death of the last feminine participant. The paper begins with the examination of the term «Zinovievist» and its evolution that allows to justify the selection of personal files for a study. The author reveals that after the Kirov assassination the number of «Zinovievists» had increased dramatically, because the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party and NKVD deliberately classified the members of other faction group and even their relatives as «Zinovievist»