The article deals with the history of the International Women’s Day (International Day of Working Women) in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. The forms and methods of implementation of “new” holidays for propaganda of social transformations and involvement of women into “socialistic building” are analyzed in the article.

There is considered the work of women’s departments in the 1920s in the Lower Volga Region. Based on the archival documents there are found out the conditions and methods of work with women. There is noted the duality of authorities’ policy concerning the women’s issue. On the one hand, the documents show the difficulties to involve women into social life. On the other hand, there is traced the tendency to limit women’s activity by some particular frames, conditions, guidelines.