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Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War Wehrmacht frontlines: June 1941–November 1942 Also by Roger D. Markwick REWRITING HISTORY IN SOVIET RUSSIA: THE POLITICS OF REVISIONIST HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1956–1974 RUSSIA’S STILLBORN DEMOCRACY? FROM GORBACHEV TO YELTSIN (with Graeme Gill) This page intentionally left blank Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War Roger D. Markwick Associate Professor of Modern European History The University of Newcastle, Australia and Euridice Charon Cardona Australian Research Council Senior Research Associate The University of Newcastle, Australia © Roger D. Markwick and Euridice Charon Cardona 2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-57952-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-36816-7 ISBN 978-0-230-36254-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230362543 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 To all those women who resisted fascism No it’s not the huts that are burning It is my youth in the fire. Young women are going off to war Looking like young fellows. Yulya Drunina (1973), Ne Byvaet Lyubvi Neschastlivy (Moskva), p. 177. Even at war, love is all you think about! That’s women for you! Soldier Ivan. And what would you have done without us, Ivan! Marya. Frontline graffiti, East Prussia, January 1945, in L. N. Pushkarev (1995), ‘Pismennaya forma bytovaniya frontovo folklora’, Etnograficheskoe obozreniye, 4 (7–8), 29. Contents List of Plates xii List of Maps xiii List of Tables xiv Preface and Acknowledgements xv List of Acronyms and Russian Terms xvii Transliteration, Archival References and Pseudonyms xxi Chronology of Soviet Women at War xxii Introduction 1 1 The Making of the frontovichki 7 A passion for education 9 Komsomol mentality 11 Osoaviakhim 14 Commanders’ wives 17 Heroines and heroes 19 How the Steel was Tempered 20 Civil war legacy 21 A ‘new type’ of woman 23 Curtailing the heroine cult 27 2 ‘Not Women’s Business’: Volunteers 32 ‘To the home front!’ 37 Civil and a nti- aircraft defence 38 The Labour Front 39 Secret training 43 Levée en masse 46 Baptism of fire 47 The first women snipers 51 3 Sisters of Mercy: Nurses 56 Raw recruits 57 Combative femininity 61 Casualties 66 Medsanbat sisters 68 Fighting field nurses 69 Sanitizing war 74 ix
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