‘Every Log a Blow to the Enemy!’ Women in the Soviet Wartime Timber Industry, 1941–1945

Title: ‘Every Log a Blow to the Enemy!’ Women in the Soviet Wartime Timber Industry, 1941–1945
Creator: Markwick, Roger D.
Relation: ARC.DP110100533 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110100533
Relation: Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 75, Issue 3, p. 373-398
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.2020729
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2023
Description: A pivotal question in the historiography of Stalinism is the degree to which coercion or popular support drove the Soviet war effort in World War II. This article addresses this question by examining the mass mobilisation of women to labour in the vital wartime logging and timber industry. It examines the means by which women workers were recruited; the incentives or otherwise used to promote production; and the daily lives of these women. The principal purpose of the article is to evaluate the coercive and motivational mechanisms by which the Soviet party-state mobilised women for this punishing labour.
Subject: logging (timber); war; women workers; labor; SDG 9; Sustainable Development Goals
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1484412
Identifier: uon:51329
Identifier: ISSN:0966-8136
Language: eng
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