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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.
Artikel Yulia Gradskova 2019, dari arsip WIDF Soviet (GARF), tentang seberapa jauh sikap antikolonial WIDF memberi suara nyata pada perempuan Afrika, Asia dan Amerika Latin akhir 1950-an-pertengahan 1960-an; dokumen internal menunjukkan agenda yang didominasi Eropa dan Soviet. Konteks peran WIDF Gerwani.
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- Date
- 2019
- Creator
- Gradskova
- Document type
- journal article (journal article (peer-reviewed, archival history))
- Language
- English; Russian
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- UK
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- Taylor & Francis via UCalgary EZproxy · source link
- Access
- Women's History Review 29(2), Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1652440. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Gradskova, Y. (2020). Women's International Democratic Federation, the 'Third World' and the global Cold War from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s. Women's History Review, 29(2), 270–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1652440 (Original work published online 2019)
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/Gradskova (2019) - Women's International Democratic Federation, the Third World and the Global Cold War.pdf
- OCR / text
- Good (0.923) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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