Reports of the Soviet Women Committee about the Status of Women in Foreign Countries as a Propaganda Tool in the 1940s — 1950s.
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.90.3.023
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Committee of Soviet Women reports on the economic and legal status of women abroad during the post-war period (1946–1950) as a propaganda tool. In addition to the reports of the Committee of Soviet Women the research source base consisted of materials from the State Archive in Tobolsk and the State Archive of Public and Political Associations of the Tyumen Region. The gender approach was the basis of the research methodology. In addition, the basic principles of historical research were applied: objectivity, historicism, a social approach to the study of history, and a comprehensive study of the problem. Significant results have certainly been achieved on the path of women’s emancipation in the USSR: equal pay for equal work, social insurance, protection of motherhood and childhood. It is not surprising that these achievements were used to promote the advantages of the socialist socio-economic system. For the first time the article attempts to consider the reports of the Committee of Soviet Women on the status of women abroad as a propaganda tool. In the reports we find criticism of the capitalist countries state policy on the women’s issue. The propaganda effect was achieved by biased coverage of the real situation, silencing the objective difficulties of the post-war period and emphasis of the social conflicts that took place. Yet only in the countries of socialist orientation — the Soviet occupation zone of Germany and North Korea, as well as in the USSR, the state policy on the women’s issue was highlighted in a positive way.
About the Authors
E. I. Turova
Tyumen State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Turova Elena Ivanovna — PhD (Historical Sciences), Associate Professor
R. S. Turov
Tyumen State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Turov Rostislav Sergeevich — PhD (Philosophical Sciences), Associate Professor
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Turova E.I., Turov R.S. Reports of the Soviet Women Committee about the Status of Women in Foreign Countries as a Propaganda Tool in the 1940s — 1950s. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(3(90)):214-221. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.90.3.023
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