Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women (AKSZh) also known as the Committee of Soviet Women, 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 "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. 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 Revolution n ...

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 Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) is an international organization with the stated goal of working for women's rights. It was established in 1945 and was most active during the Cold War. It initially focussed on anti-fascism, worl ...

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 dominant ...

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