1. Although members often stressed that the organization assisted families, I focus here on how it helped women specifically. Several scholars have conducted research on the league, including Sławomira Walczewska, “Liga kobiet—jedyna organizacja kobieca w PRL,” Pełnym głosem, no. 1 (Summer 1993): 25–29; Zofia Sokoł, Prasa kobieca w Polsce w latach 1945–95 (Rzeszow, Poland, 1998), chap. 4
2. Izabela Ratman-Liwerska, Stowarzyszenie jako czynnik społeczno-wychowawczej aktywizacji kobiet (na przykładzie badań na Białostoczyżnie) (Białystok, Poland, 1984)
3. Jean Robinson, “Women, the State, and the Need for Civil Society: The Liga Kobiet in Poland,” in Comparative State Feminism, ed. Dorothy McBride Stetson and Amy G. Mazur (Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995), 202–20.
4. Some examples of this recent historiography that blur the lines between state and society include David Hoffmann, Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 (Ithaca, 2003)
5. Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (Cambridge, 2002)