Soviet Women in Combat

A History of Violence on the Eastern Front

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av Anna Krylova, North Carolina) Krylova, Anna (Duke University

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Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war and violence. The book narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet young women who came to think about themselves as 'women soldiers' in Stalinist Russia in the 1930s and who shared modern combat, its machines and commanding positions with men on the Eastern front between 1941 and 1945. The author asks how a largely patriarchal society with traditional gender values such as Stalinist Russia in the 1930s managed to merge notions of violence and womanhood into a first conceivable and then realizable agenda for the cohort of young female volunteers and for its armed forces. Pursuing the question, Krylova's approach and research reveals a more complex conception of gender identities.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-09-30
Mått157 x 231 x 18 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107699403

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Anna Krylova is Hunt Assistant Professor of Modern Russian History at Duke University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Russian gender and cultural history, World War II and mechanization of warfare, and problematics of historical interpretation. She has published articles and critical historiographical essays in the Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and has served as a guest editor of a special Slavic Review issue on Soviet and Russian notions of self. Professor Krylova has been a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and visiting scholar at Tuebingen University (Germany).

Introduction: the woman veteran as a World War II memoirist; Part I. Before the Front, 1930s: 1. A portrait of a young woman as the citizen soldier: the 'prewar generation' in popular culture, in school, and at the shooting range; Part II. On the Way to the Front, 1941–5: 2. 'And this is exactly who we are - soldiers!': Women volunteers, local authorities, and the Stalinist government in 1941; 3. The exceptional mobilization of 1941: the making of a female combat collective by state order; 4. New gender landscapes for the army: from grassroots enlistments to the state-run mobilizations of 1942–5; Part III. At the Front, 1941–5: 5. Partners in violence: the woman soldier and the machine in the 1941 trenches; 6. 'To be a woman-commander - that was great!: remechanizing and regendering in the Red Army, 1942–5; 7. Bonded by combat: women and men sharing violence, authority, and romance in mechanized warfare, 1942–5; Conclusion; Appendix.

Reviews of the hardback: 'In this brilliant book, Anna Krylova rediscovers a cohort of heroic Soviet Nazi fighting women, reconstructs the documentable yet obscure Stalinist policy that shaped and fulfilled the female fighters' desires to become mechanized warriors, and establishes the role Stalinist culture – what she terms the 'ambiguous cultural and institutional terrain of Stalinism' – played in creating an internally contradictory Communist modern, statist gendered order. Krylova … opens this book to a nonspecialist reader like me and points in the direction of a truly global history of the longest revolution.' Tani Barlow, Rice University