Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military articles from September 2000

Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military archives from September 2000

Ready for Work and Defense: Visual Propaganda and Soviet Women's Military Preparedness in the 1930s.
September 22, 2000... When scholars think of Soviet visual propaganda of the 1930s, it is the images of socialist realism that usually spring to mind. Life was not depicted with all of its flaws and hardships. Instead, an ideal world of plenty populated by happy...

Soviet Women Soldiers in World War II: Three Biographical Sketches.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... My Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers (1998) is an original collection of one hundred mini-biographies, of which three are presented here. This original book is part of a series also including three...

Heroes, Lovers, Victims -- Partisan Girls during the Great Fatherland War.
September 22, 2000... An analysis of documents from the spetsotdel of the former Komsomol Archive The most famous names in Soviet partisan mythology belong to young girls. Zoia Kosmodem'ianskaia, Liza Chaikina, Ania Lisitsina, Marite Mel'nikaite and Zinaida...

Stalin's Falcons: the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment.(women pilots)(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... The following article is excerpted from the forthcoming book, Wings, Women And War: Soviet Women in Military Aviation in the Second World War (University Press of Kansas, expected publication late 2001) Introduction In April 1943, two...

RUSSIA'S MOTHERS--VOICES OF CHANGE.(Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia)
September 22, 2000... "If they can't help me, no one can." A mother waiting for assistance from the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia. Three events led to the decline of the Russian military and subsequent ascendance of Russia's mothers as voices for...

Women in the Russian Armed Forces: A Marriage of Convenience?(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... `History demonstrates that the number of women in the armed forces increases when society is in extreme conditions. The current situation in Russia exactly corresponds to that definition... In such a situation it is completely intolerable to...