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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)

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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.

Monografi Yulia Gradskova 2021 tentang WIDF, Dunia Selatan dan Perang Dingin, berdasar arsip GARF, RGASPI dan IISH: pengawasan Soviet, pertempuran Perang Dingin dan hubungan dengan perempuan Afrika, Asia dan Amerika Latin. Latar WIDF yang diikuti Gerwani.

People

Yulia Gradskova

Organisations

Women's International Democratic FederationCommunist Party of the Soviet UnionSoviet Women's Committee

Places

MoscowEast BerlinParis

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementUSSR and Eastern Europepeace and anti-imperialismAfro-Asian solidarityhistoriography

Details

Date
2021
Creator
Gradskova
Document type
book (monograph)
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Country
UK
Period
1999–present
Access
Freely viewable at source but reuse terms apply or are unrecorded: link to the source; host the file only after checking rights.
Citation (APA)
Gradskova, Y. (2021). The Women's International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War: Defending the rights of women of the 'whole world'?. Routledge.
File
02 Secondary Sources/2.3 WIDF, Afro-Asian Solidarity and Women's Internationalism/Gradskova (2021) - The Womens International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War.pdf
OCR / text
Good (0.943) · 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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