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.
#1239507 in Books Richard Duncan Jones 2016-08-24Original language:English 8.98 x .71 x 5.98l; #File Name: 1107149797242 pagesPower and Privilege in Roman Society
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