'The Motherland Calls': Soviet women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45

Title: 'The Motherland Calls': Soviet women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45
Creator: Markwick, Roger D.
Relation: The Palgrave Handbook on Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union p. 215-230
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54905-1_15
Publisher: Palgrave McMillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: Women played a pivotal role in the Soviet victory over Nazism in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45. In contrast to most other combatant countries in the Second World War, Soviet women took on roles in the military, industry and agriculture that elsewhere were generally regarded as the exclusive domain of males. This chapter narrates the roles of Soviet women on the front lines and on the home and domestic fronts. It analyses the mechanisms employed by the draconian Stalinist regime at a critical moment to mobilise millions of women for the war effort. And it considers to what degree, if at all, mass female participation in the Soviet war effort was emancipatory.
Subject: Soviet Union; women; Second World War; Stalin; mobilisation; agriculture; industry; home front; family; motherhood
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409379
Identifier: uon:36010
Identifier: ISBN:9781137549044
Language: eng

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