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GA-02958 2019 rel B licensed

Women's International Democratic Federation, the Third World and the Global Cold War (Gradskova, 2019)

WIDF, the Third World and the Global Cold War (Gradskova, 2019)

Yulia Gradskova's 2019 article, from Soviet WIDF archives (GARF), on how far the WIDF's anti-colonial stance gave women from Africa, Asia and Latin America real voice in the late 1950s-mid 1960s; internal documents show a Europe- and Soviet-dominated agenda. Context for Gerwani's WIDF role.

GA-02959 2021 rel B

Global Gender: The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War (Gradskova, 2021)

Global Gender: the WIDF, the Global South and the Cold War (Gradskova, 2021)

Yulia Gradskova's 2021 monograph on the WIDF, the Global South and the Cold War, based on GARF, RGASPI and IISH archives: Soviet supervision, Cold War battles and relations with women from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Background on the WIDF in which Gerwani participated.

GA-03068 2025 rel C

East-South Women's Internationalism at the Cold War Periphery (Gradskova, 2025)

Yulia Gradskova's 2025 open-access monograph on 'East South' women's networks from the late 1950s to the 1980s through Tashkent and Havana, using GARF, WIDF and Radio Free Europe files. Background on socialist-bloc women's internationalism.