Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women (AKSZh) (Russian: Антифашистский комитет советских женщин) also known as the Committee of Soviet Women (Комитет советских женщин), was a state women's organization in Soviet Russia, founded in 1941. It was renamed to Committee of Soviet Women in 1956. It was a state organization and a branch of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

. In 1930, the

Zhenotdel The Zhenotdel (, ), the women's department of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the section of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s. It gave women in the Russian Revolut ...

had been dissolved because women's issues were officially regarded to have been solved in Soviet Russia. In 1941, however, the Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women was founded to promote the Soviet women's model internationally, specifically the Soviet woman's capacity to successfully combine the role of mother, worker and citizen: on a congress in Paris in 1945, it took the initiative to found the

Women's International Democratic Federation The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) is an international women's rights organization. Established in 1945, it was most active during the Cold War when, according to historian Francisca de Haan, it was "the largest and probably ...

for the same purpose.Нагорная, Оксана Сергеевна. Женщины в структурах советской культурной дипломатии холодной войны: пространства мобилизации и практики соучастия // Новейшая история России : Междисциплинарный научно-политический журнал. — 2020. — Т. 10, № 2. — С. 451-468. — ISSN 2309-7973. It was dissolved in 1992 and succeeded by the

Union of Women of Russia The Union of Women of Russia (Russian: Союз женщин России (СЖР); known before 1991 as the Soviet Women's Committee) was a women's political organisation in Russia. Its leader was Alevtina Fedulova. In 1993, it was the dominan ...

Chairwomen

Valentina Grizodubova Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova (, ''Valentyna Stepanivna Hryzodubova''; – 28 April 1993) was one of the first female pilots in the Soviet Union awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the only female Hero of the Soviet Union to also b ...

(1941–1945) * Nina Popova (1945–1968) *

Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first Women in space, woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. S ...

(1968–1987) *

Zoya Pukhova Zoya Pavlovna Pukhova (; 24 September 1936 in Seleznyovo village, Komsomolsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, Komsomolsky District – 6 January 2016 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian politician.Пухова, Зоя Павловна // Большая � ...

(1987–1991) *

Alevtina Fedulova Alevtina Vasilyevna Fedulova (, born 14 April 1940) is a Russian political activist and former leader of the Soviet Women's Committee (later the Union of Women of Russia). Early life Fedulova was born on 14 April 1940, in Elektrostal, to an ...

(1991–1992)

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