Author: R. Markwick Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230362540 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
Author: R. Markwick Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230362540 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
Author: R. Markwick Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780230579521 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of original archival, memoir, and published sources, this book captures the everyday experiences of Soviet women fighting, living and dying on the front.
Author: Kazimiera J. Cottam Publisher: Focus ISBN: 9781585101603 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a collection of one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance. About one million women served in the Soviet Armed Forces during WWII, yet their significant contribution to victory in that war has, so far, received insufficient attention. Publications in English have been limited to Soviet airwomen and are based on recent interviews with a handful of survivors. Unfortunately, most of these publications contain errors of fact and in some cases trivialize and sensationalize the subject. This collection includes one hundred brief biographies of WWII Soviet female air force, infantry and navy personnel, as well as women partisans and leaders of urban resistance, recipients of the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union (HSU) and the Order of Glory I Class. As indicated in this collection, in the ground forces women distinguished themselves as medical personnel, political officers, tank crew members, machine gunners and snipers. Among decorated women snipers whose biographies appear in the book was Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to tour the United States, she was the first Soviet citizen to be received at the White House and visited Canada, too; a Winchester rifle with an optical sight, now on display at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow, was presented to her in Toronto. Also included in the book were biographies of four participants in the Russian Civil War (1918-1921), including the incomparable Rozaliya Zemlyachka, deputy Prime Minister during WWII, and Raisa Azarkh, senior medical officer, who met Dr. Normal Bethune, a famous Canadian (who died tragically in China in 1939) while they both served in Spain, during the Spanish Civil War.
Author: Youri Obratztsov Publisher: ISBN: 9782352503880 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Of all the jobs women could have done during the war, one of the most difficult, one of the most improbable was that of sniper. At the beginning of the war women snipers were isolated cases, but heir numbers increased rapidly with the creation of the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. They were going to be up against enemy fire, the threat of being arrested by the Germans, bad weather conditions, and having to sit still for hours and days on end.
Author: Svetlana Aleksievich Publisher: ISBN: Category : World War, 1939-1945 Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
"This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fires a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... They killed the enemy who, with unprecedented cruelty, had attacked their land, their homes and their children. Soviet writer of Byelorussia, Svetlana Alexiyevich spent four years working on the book, visiting over 100 cities and towns, settlements and villages and recording the stories and reminiscences of women war veterans. The soviet press called the book 'a vivid reporting of events long past, which affected the destiny of the nation as a whole.' The most important thing about the book is not so much the front-line episodes as women's heart-rending experiences in the war. Through their testimony the past makes an impassioned appeal to the present, denouncing yesterday's and today's fascism..."--
Author: William M. Mandel Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books ISBN: Category : Women Languages : en Pages : 382
Book Description
Monograph on women, women's rights and the woman worker in the USSR - reviews trends in the improvement of women's social status, employment opportunities and educational opportunities, etc., presents numerous case histories illustrating the work life and family life of married women, and includes a comparison of the situation of women in other socialist countries. Bibliography pp. 328 to 335.
Author: David L. Hoffmann Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000430294 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today. Through an examination of war remembrance in its various forms—official histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day parades—chapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war memorialization under Putin. This war narrative resonates with the Russian population due to decades of Soviet commemoration, which continued virtually uninterrupted into the post-Soviet period. Major themes of the volume include the use of World War II memory for political legitimation and patriotic mobilization; the striking continuities between Soviet and post-Soviet commemorative practices; the place of Holocaust memorialization in contemporary Russia; Putin’s invocation of the war to bolster national pride and international prestige; and the relationship between individual memory and collective remembrance. Authored by an international group of distinguished specialists, this collection is ideal for scholars of Russia across a range of disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, and cultural studies.
Author: R. Markwick
Author: R. Markwick
Author: R. Markwick
Author: Kazimiera Janina Cottam
Author: Kazimiera J. Cottam
Author: Youri Obratztsov
Author: SOVIET WOMEN.
Author: Svetlana Aleksievich
Author: William M. Mandel
Author: David L. Hoffmann