American Women — International women

  • Elizabeth Huddle interviewed by William Mandel

    American actress Elizabeth Huddle discusses impressions of Soviet audiences, theater people, and the country. Recording begins with an announcement from KPFA staff giving the time and place to meet for a march and rally called by lesbians and gays of San Francisco against the death penalty in response to the verdict of Dan White. Previously…

  • Woman scientist interviewed by William Mandel

    This episode of Mandel’s focus on the Soviet Union begins with a lengthier introduction than usual. He then plays the interview with Vera Osipovna, a 70-year-old female scientist from the Soviet Union, who discusses her life from the revolution to becoming the head of a large research institute. This interview was conducted by William Mandel…

  • Teurai Ropa interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Teurai Ropa (Amai Joice T.R. Mujuru) discusses the Zanu women’s movement in Zimbabwe and her role in it. Ropa, 25 years old at the time of the interview, was Secretary of Women’s Affairs in Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a member of the ZANU Central Committee, and a field commander with Zimbabwe African National Liberation…

  • Central Asian woman interviewed by William Mandel

    On the previous episode of Soviet Lives, William Mandel interviewed a 16 year-old girl at her home in Samarqand (AZ0355). Her family were friends of a Russian journalist, whom was also an associate of Mandel. The two journalists were invited to the family’s home for dinner. While the father, a college teacher, prepared the meal…

  • Blood ties / by Anica Mander ; produced by Michael Butler

    Anica Vesel Mander (b. 1935 – d. 2002), feminist author and professor (2014 note: founded Women’s studies department at New College of San Francisco), reads from her autobiography “Blood Ties, A Woman’s History” (Moon Books and Random House, 1976) about the search for her own roots. The reading is about the family’s forced migration from…

  • Galicia, USSR / interview by William Mandel

    Jewish woman describes her life in Galicia (formerly “Galitsia”), Ukraine and her experiences with Ukrainians during WWII; her husband, a Jewish man discusses his experience fighting in the Soviet Army in WWII. Other people present participate in the conversation with questions and comments. A Jewish man, a weight-lifter, journalist, and former construction worker, and the…

  • Kirghizian woman interviewed by William Mandel

    First audio heard is William Mandel introducing the phone-in portion of the show (about 9 seconds), which is cut off and there is a brief news report on the PLO’s relations with Syria and Cairo, reported by Russ Stetler for Internews. At 35 seconds, an unidentified speaker announces Soviet Lives with William Mandel. Mandel says…

  • Yelena Zeltin interviewed by William Mandel

    William Mandel interviews, in English, Professor Yelena Zeltin of Moscow, speaking of her life: her parents were revolutionaries exiled to Siberia under Tsar, and Zeltin was thus born in Siberia; her mother is Jewish, her father Latvian. Her husband died as a result of World War II hardships. Very human, interesting life. |Previously attributed to…

  • Madeline Duckles interviewed by William Mandel

    Interview with Madeline Duckles (May 19, 1916-Nov. 23, 2013), prominent Anti-Vietnam War Older-Generation activist (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, Women for Peace). She had just been to the U.S.S.R. on an invitation of their Soviet Women’s Committee. She discusses SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), etc.; her impressions of Soviet Central Asia vis-a-vis Vietnam,…

  • Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts / produced by William Mandel

    Interview, done in Baku, Azerbaijan, on shore of Caspian Sea, September 1977, with two women: first the director of block-square Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts, second a museum tour guide and director of a TV show on the arts. The former is the daughter of school teachers who were the first generation of educated…