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22 de may. de 2024 · Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman to travel into space. On June 16, 1963, she was launched in the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours. She later became a politician. Learn more about Tereshkova’s life and career.
- Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison, American physician and the first African...
- Valery F. Bykovsky
On June 16, 1963, after Bykovsky had been in orbit two days,...
- Mae Jemison
Hace 5 días · Rosa Luxemburg ( Polish: Róża Luksemburg, [ˈruʐa ˈluksɛmburk] ⓘ; German: [ˈʁoːza ˈlʊksm̩bʊʁk] ⓘ; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist movements of Poland and Germany during ...
Boris Egorov. TASS, Sputnik. Follow Russia Beyond on Rumble. ‘Frau Black Death’ - this is how the Nazis referred to Evdokiya Zavaliy. Wounded four times, concussed twice, she was eventually...
Hace 3 días · The strength of the volume lies in the fact that instead of positing two undifferentiated and unitary subjects – that is, the Soviet state and Soviet women – Goldman explores the politics of local and central organizations that played a role in formulating policies towards women.
13 de may. de 2024 · The exhibition Women in Soviet Art marshals a variety of strong female characters reflecting the changing approaches to women as subjects during the subsequent rules of Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev.
6 de may. de 2024 · When Hitler's Nazis threatened the world, every person was needed to help the war effort — and the women stepped up! In this fascinating book, U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder tells the story of fifteen little-known heroes of the Greatest Generation: resistance fighters, pioneering pilots, rescuers, and spies.
Hace 2 días · Primary Source. Woman with Lenin/Stalin Flag. Annotation. Articles and images published in Soviet newspapers on March 8, International Communist Woman’s Day, provide the most obvious examples of how women were used as symbols in a propaganda campaign.
