One million women served in the Red Army on the Eastern Front in the Second World War, resisting the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; genocidal, misogynist, warfare of unprecedented ferocity. Another 28,000 women fought with the partisans. Mass participation by women in warfare on such a scale is [...]
Explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the 20th Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the "period of stagnation" under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material[...]