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  • The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War

    Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’?

    by Yulia Gradskova ...
    Series series Global Gender
    This book examines the role of the Women's International Defense Federation (WIDF) in transnational women’s activism in the context of the Cold War, and in connection to the rights of women from Asia, Africa and Latin America.Combining a global history and postcolonial theory approach, this monograph shines light on an underrepresented organisation and its important role in the Cold War, Twentieth ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman

    Natsionalka

    by Yulia Gradskova ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order to explore how the “emancipation” and “culturalization” of women of “culturally backward nations” ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Institutionalizing Gender Equality

    Historical and Global Perspectives

    by Yulia Gradskova, Sara Sanders, Ildikó Asztalos Morell, Tatiana Barandova, Vanessa D'Hooghe, Chang-Ling Huang, Heike Kahlert, Heidi Kurvinen, Malin Lindberg0, Svetlana Shakirova1, An van Raemdonck2, Sofie Tornhill3 ...
    Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Post-Soviet Women

    New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment

    Edited by Ann-Mari Sätre, Yulia Gradskova, Vladislava Vladimirova ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Gendering Postsocialism

    Old Legacies and New Hierarchies

    Edited by Yulia Gradskova, Ildikó Asztalos Morell ...
    Series series Global Gender
    Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in social citizenship and, crucially, their established gender norms and relations, all contributing to the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    A History of Communism

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  • Post-Soviet Civil Society

    Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

    by Anders Uhlin ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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    A Critical Introduction

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  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

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  • National Minorities in Putin's Russia

    Diversity and Assimilation

    by Federica Prina ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
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    Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space

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  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

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