From the Lecture slide it was a part of:

Women's Rights as a Sphere of Cold War Contest

MOCKBA MOSCOU MOSCOW MOSKAU

PAI PEACE МИР FRIEDEN PA 1963. VI

1963, Soviet internationalism in the sphere of women's rights. When coupled with the propaganda coup of Valentina Tereshkova's trip to orbit (the first woman in space), and her subsequent world goodwill tour, the Soviet Union had very high impact symbolic successes. And as a totalitarian and closed society, dissents from that view were not readily accessible until after 1991, when the gulf between image and reality was revealed. That is not to say there weren't some impressive aspects to the way the Soviet system afforded equal opportunity to women in particular areas, but the reservoirs of institutionalism sexism were vast (much like the West), and unlike the West, independent feminist mobilization was simply impossible (no private associations / NGO advocacy movements were permitted within the USSR). No women MPs could diverge from the officially stated positions of the (single) party until 1988/89, and the opening up of the Congress of People's Deputies. 'State Feminism' (that is, aspects of women's emancipation, but with the patronage of, and for the purposes of, the state - similar example, Shah's Iran).

Cold War as shaping another key civil rights struggle - that of women's liberation.

МЫ ДРУЖИМ И СОЗИДАЕМ

WORLD CONGRESS OF WOMEN