ABSTRACT
Historians have for many years been challenging the idea of the ‘Iron Curtain’ serving as an impenetrable barrier between East and West. Whilst ‘Cold War’ politics were being played out between the Western and Eastern blocs in Europe, a whole variety of international organizations successfully sought to unite people across the political, ideological, cultural, economic and even technological divide, not only in Europe but around the world. This study examines one of the gaps in the Iron Curtain from the Soviet perspective by focusing on the role and work of Soviet women in the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), particularly in the 1950s and 1960s.1
