Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War

Title: Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War
Creator: Markwick, Roger D.; Charon-Cardona, Euridice
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/soviet-women-on-the-frontline-in-the-second-world-war-roger-d-markwick/?K=9780230579521
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book
Date: 2012
Description: One million women served in the Red Army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War, resisting the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; genocidal, misogynist, warfare of unprecedented ferocity. Another 28,000 women fought with the partisans. Mass participation by women in warfare on such a scale is historically unique. This book explains why and how Soviet women came to fight en masse in Stalin's 'Great Patriotic War' of 1941-45. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, it captures the confronting, everyday experiences voiced by Soviet women – aviators, anti-aircraft gunners, nurses, snipers and partisans – fighting, living and dying on the anti-fascist frontline. In doing so, it examines the aftermath of women's mass military participation and what it says about the place of women in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Subject: women; Red Army; Soviet Union; Second World War
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057155
Identifier: uon:16141
Identifier: ISBN:9780230362499
Language: eng

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