This article discussed the participation of minority women deputies in the parliamentary debates of the Perestroika, namely in the Congress of People’s Deputies (CPD), which was formally the supreme government body of the Soviet Union in 1989–1991. The speeches and statements of minority women deputies highlighted their perspectives on the multifaceted crisis of the Soviet Union. Some of the women represented especially marginalized groups, like the indigenous peoples of the Far East and mountain herders of Kirghizia, and for the first time gained the opportunity to express their grievances in a public debate. The article focused on the grievances, which minority women deputies articulated, and the solutions, which they proposed for mitigating or overcoming them. The study was informed by the concepts of intersectionality and the imperial situation. Although nationality (ethnicity) was an important self-categorization for many of those minority women who spoke at the five congresses, the meanings, ascribed to ethnonational categories, and the policy proposals, deriving from them, were very different. Even when grievances were “nationalized,” the proposed solutions could also be anti-nationalist. Besides, the same grievances could be refracted not only through nationality but also through gender, regional, local, occupational, and other categories. Some of the issues, like those related to occupation and environment, were part of the broader public discussions. Even though their grievances had often been formulated in terms of nationality and also originated in the centralized mismanagement, most of the minority women deputies viewed the Soviet Union as the main source of possible solutions.