Book - A. Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat, 2010

Anna Krylova, Soviet Women in Combat. A History of Violence on the Eastern Front, Cambridge University Press, 2010.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..