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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Woman Veteran as a World War II Memoirist | |
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| Theoretical and Interpretive Challenges of the "Generation Not from This Universe" | |
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| Paradoxes of Stalinist Culture and Subjectivity: The "Woman Soldier" as a Personal and State Project | |
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| The "Woman Soldier" in Mechanized Warfare of World War II | |
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| Before The Front, 1930s | |
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| A Portrait of a Young Woman as the Citizen-Soldier | |
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| Introduction: "My Fascist, as a Result, Remained Alive. And That Was Very Upsetting" | |
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| "We Were the Prewar Generation": Military and Generational Contours of Future Struggles | |
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| Imperatives and Opportunities for New Gender Identities: A Young Soviet Woman in School and at the Shooting Range | |
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| Shifting Gender Lines of Future Battlefields in Press, Literature, and Film | |
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| Gender Ambiguities on the Eve of the War: Can Mothers by Civic Duty Be Women Soldiers by Birth? | |
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| On the Way to the Front, 1941-45 | |
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| "And This Is Exactly Who We Are - Soldiers!": Women Volunteers, Local Authorities, and the Stalinist Government in 1941 | |
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| Introduction: "The Pressing Inner Voice That Repeated Over and Over Again: 'To the Front'" | |
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| Young Women Volunteers in 1941 Conscription Sites | |
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| The "Desire to Fight" in Stalinist Official Culture: Gender Contradictions at Their Extremes | |
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| Discouragement without Prohibition: Soviet Leadership and the En Masse Female Volunteering | |
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| The Exceptional Mobilization of 1941: The Making of a Female Combat Collective by State Order | |
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| Introduction: "So Different in Their Personal Lives and So Similar in the Main Thing - [a] Desire to Fight..." | |
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| "Can You Fight, Young Woman?": Different Gender Languages of the State Mobilization | |
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| "Justifying and Proving": The Making of Women's Combat Collectives | |
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| New Gender Landscapes for the Army: From Grassroots Enlistments to the State-Run Mobilizations of 1942-45 | |
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| Introduction: "We Are Talking Not about Individual Female Volunteers but about Thousands ..." | |
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| Parting with "Bourgeois Contemplations" about War: Female Mobilizations in and outside of the National Press | |
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| By State Order: Old and New Gender Landscapes for the Military | |
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| The "Woman Soldier" as a State Category of Mobilization | |
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| At the Front, 1941-45 | |
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| Partners in Violence: The Woman Soldier and the Machine in the 1941 Trenches | |
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| Introduction: "I Believe in My Maximchik ..." | |
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| Where Did Our Planes Go? | |
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| Different Concepts of the Woman and the Proliferation of Gender Logics | |
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| Combat Violence and the Dynamics of Gender | |
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| "To Be a Woman Commander - That Was Great!": Remechanizing and Regendering in the Red Army, 1942-45 | |
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| Introduction: "To Be a Woman Commander - That Was Great!" | |
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| Remechanizing the Soviet Military: "The Russian Colossus on Steel Feet" | |
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| "Fighting" in the Literal Sense of the Word: Possibilities and Limitations in Wartime Representation of the Woman Soldier | |
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| "Only Commanders" and "Only at the Frontline": The Uncompromising Young Woman Soldier | |
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| Bonded by Combat: Women and Men Sharing Violence, Authority, and Romance in Mechanized Warfare, 1942-45 | |
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| Introduction: "I Love My Soldiers": Comradely Bonding and Alternative Cultures of Combat Violence | |
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| A Male Soldier as a Spectator, Record Keeper, and Participant in Young Women's Historic "Showing-Off" | |
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| Anxiety and Pleasures of "Being First Women in Combat": Combat Violence and Intimate Laboratories of Mechanized Warfare | |
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| Narratives from Male Recollections: Contemplating "Motherly" and "Fatherly" Military Traditions | |
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| Finishing Details to the Portrait of the Woman as a Modern Soldier: Factoring in the "Womanly," and the Romantic, and the Heterosexual | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |