Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Author: Henry Sakaida

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 178096692X

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When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field medics and nurses, then simply picking up a gun during the battle, and charging boldly into the line of fire. In the area of aviation, women also contributed greatly to the war effort. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at night, without parachutes; their only protection was the darkness. This book tells the stories of the brave women that were awarded the Soviet Union's most prestigious title Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery in protecting their homeland.

Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Author: Henry Sakaida

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1780966512

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When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected. They were steered towards nursing or other supportive roles. Many determined women managed to enter combat by first volunteering as field medics and nurses, then simply picking up a gun during the battle, and charging boldly into the line of fire. In the area of aviation, women also contributed greatly to the war effort. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at night, without parachutes; their only protection was the darkness. This book tells the stories of the brave women that were awarded the Soviet Union's most prestigious title Hero of the Soviet Union for their bravery in protecting their homeland.

Russia's Heroes
Russia's Heroes

Author: Albert Axell

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1472103904

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With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its might against Russia: 5,000,000 men took part in the blitz attack along the Russian frontier. From interviews and primary evidence, much of it never previously published, unfolds the story of the Eastern Front, interweaving accounts of the men and women who served with the progress of the war itself. A tale of unbelievable heroism.

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Author: Henry Sakaida

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1780966938

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The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

Author: Alexander Hill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1135765251

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This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II, with commentary. This is the only single-volume work in English to use documentary evidence to look at the Soviet war effort from military, political, economic and diplomatic perspectives. The book should not only facilitate a deeper study of the Soviet war effort, but also allow more balanced study of what is widely known in the West as the ‘Eastern Front’. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.

Stalin's Folly
Stalin's Folly

Author: Konstantin Pleshakov

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0618773614

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Stalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled access to the Soviet archives, this text reveals why the dictator behaved as he did.

Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45
Heroes of the Soviet Union 1941–45

Author: Henry Sakaida

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1780966520

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The Great Patriotic War began on 22 June 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Over 10 million Soviet soldiers took part in the war and of those about 12,600 earned the Soviet Union's highest military award the Hero of the Soviet Union for deeds of great daring and self sacrifice. This book covers the male recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union award during the Great Patriotic War. Snipers, fighter pilots, partisans and spies are all included, together with the famous aces Pokryshkin and Kozhedub, who both gained the award an amazing three times.

Women in the Stalin Era
Women in the Stalin Era

Author: Melanie Ilic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-10-30

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0230523420

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This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

Soviet Women in Combat
Soviet Women in Combat

Author: Anna Krylova

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107699403

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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 who shared modern combat, its machines, and commanding positions with men on the Eastern front between 1941 and 1945. The author asks how a largely patriarchal society with traditional gender values such as Stalinist Russia in the 1930s managed to merge notions of violence and womanhood into a first conceivable and then realizable agenda for the cohort of young female volunteers and for its armed forces. Pursuing the question, Krylova's approach and research reveals a more complex conception of gender identities.