Anna Krylova – författare

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.

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.

Книга Анны Крыловой, профессора кафедры современной русской истории (Duke University), предлагает переосмыслить феномен женщин-добровольцев, которыеbвместе со своими любимыми и близкими ушли на фронт в 1941-м. Пулеметчицы и снайперы, зенитчицы и летчицы, саперы и танкистки, и даже командиры мужских подразделений — женщины наравне с мужчинами сражались на фронтах Второй мировой войны. Какие изменения должны были произойти в гендерном мировоззрении довоенного сталинского общества, чтобы феномен женщины-добровольца, женщины-солдата и женщины-командира стал культурно, социально и психологически возможным? Как менялись фронтовые отношения между женщинами и мужчинами, а также гендерные представления в армии и обществе в целом во время и после войны? Книга Анны Крыловой дает ответы на эти вопросы.

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