title: Women in the Structures of the Soviet Cultural Diplomacy of the Cold War: Between Mobilization and Participation
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metadata.value: Nagornaya, O. S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-07-07T18:59:00Z
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metadata.value: 2020-07-07T18:59:00Z
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metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.value: Nagornaya O. S. ‘Women in the Structures of the Soviet Cultural Diplomacy of the Cold War: Between Mobilization and Participation’. Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 9, 2020, pp. 451– 467.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.212
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18552
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article discusses the involvement of women in structures of Soviet cultural diplomacy, as well as
  complicated negotiations between cultural-diplomatic actors and party-state structures, a complex interweaving
  of institutional and ideological influences “from above” with the stubbornness of lay diplomats. At the center
  of the investigation are their gradual professionalization and generational change. Archival materials on Soviet
  party-state authority and (quasi) civil organizations reflect a discursive, institutional, and partly individual dimension
  of the Soviet women’s movement and its activities at the international level. The author concludes that in
  attempting to exploit the potential of women’s issues outside the country, the Soviet party-state found no solution
  to contradictions between the ambitious role of women in the Cold War and their own patriarchal patterns. After
  the late 1960s, the women’s issue also developed in global contexts of human rights. If within the USSR the topic
  was perverted in public discussions, at the international level it developed independently. This questioned the
  image of the Soviet Union as a country where gender equality was already realized. The gradual discrediting of the USSR as the main peacemaker made further use of the peace issue within the women’s movement more
  problematic. Afterwards, activities of the Soviet Women’s Committee were formalized as a bureaucratic practice,
  more focused on domestic audiences.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 16-18-10213.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Women’s International Democratic Federation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: women
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: women movement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Women in the Structures of the Soviet Cultural Diplomacy of the Cold War: Between Mobilization and Participation
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metadata.value: Article
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