Bibliography of Women and the Military in History
Russia/Soviet Union/Central Europe (in English)
most recommended:
Alexiyevich, Svetlana. War’s Unwomanly Face [U voiny — ne zhenskoe litso …]. Trans. Lezhneva, Keith Hammond and Lyudmila. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.
Cottam, Kazimiera J., Ed. Women in Air War: The Eastern Front of World War II. Revised ed. Nepean, Ontario: New Military Publishing, 1997.
Cottam, Kazimiera J., Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Nepean, Ontario: New Military Publishing, 1998.
Durova, Nadezhda. The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Trans. Zirin, Mary Fleming. London: Angel, 1988.
Erickson, John. “Soviet Women at War.” World War II and the Soviet People. Eds. Garrard, John, Carol Garrard and Stephen White. New York: St. Martin’s, 1993. 50-76.
Garrard, John, Carol Garrard, and Stephen White, Eds. World War II and the Soviet People. NY: St. Martin’s, 1993.
Griesse, Anne Eliot and Richard Stites. “Russia: Revolution and War.” Female Soldiers – Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. Goldman, Nancy Loring. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 61-84.
Noggle, Anne. A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.
Pennington, Reina. “Offensive Women: Women in Combat in the Red Army.” Time to Kill: The Soldier’s Experience of War in the West 1939-1945. Eds. Addison, Paul and Angus Calder. London: Pimlico Press, 1997. 249-262.
Pennington, Reina. Women, Wings and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Smirnova-Medvedeva, Z. M. On the Road to Stalingrad: Memoirs of a Woman Machine Gunner. Trans. Cottam, Kazimiera J. Nepean, Ontario: New Military Publishing, 1997.
additional:
Abraham, Richard. “Mariia L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917.” Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union. Ed. Edmondson, Linda. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Atkinson, Dorothy. “Society and Sexes in the Russian Past.” Women in Russia. Eds. Atkinson, Dorothy, Alexander Dallin and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977. 3-38.
Attwood, Lynne. The New Soviet Man and Woman: Sex-Role Socialization in the USSR. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Blitzstein, Madelin. “How Women Flyers Fight Russia’s Air War.” Aviation Magazine July 1944: 116+.
Bryant, Louise. Six Red Months in Russia: an observer’s account of Russia before and during the proletarian dictatorship. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918.
Clements, Barbara Evans. Daughters of Revolution: A History of Women in the USSR. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1994.
Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine D. Worobec, Eds. Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
Cockfield, James H. “The Women’s Battalions of Death in the Great War.” Command Magazine 46 (1997): 80-84.
Cottam, K. Jean. “Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground Forces and the Navy.” International Journal of Women’s Studies 3.4 (1980): 345-357.
Cottam, K. Jean. “Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Ground/Air Defense Forces.” Women in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Ed. Yedlin, Tova. New York: Praeger, 1980. 115-127.
Cottam, K. Jean. “Soviet Women in Combat in World War II: The Rear Services, Resistance Behind Enemy Lines, and Military Political Workers.” International Journal of Women’s Studies 5.4 (1982): 363-378.
Cottam, K. Jean. Soviet Airwomen in Combat in World War II. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1983.
Cottam, K. Jean, Ed. The Golden-Tressed Soldier. Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1984.
Cottam, K. Jean, Ed. In the Sky Above the Front: A Collection of Memoirs of Soviet Air Women Participants in the Great Patriotic War. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1984.
Cottam, K. Jean. “Lily Litvak Blazed the Trail.” Airforce (Canada) 13.3 (1989): 2ff.
Cottam, Kazimiera Janina, Ed. Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines. Nepean, Ontario: New Military Publishing, 1998.
Cottam, Kazimiera J. “Soviet Women Soldiers in World War II: Three Biographical Sketches.” Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military XVIII.3-4 (2001).
Curtiss, John Shelton. “Russian Sisters of Mercy in the Crimea, 1854-1855.”Slavic Review 25. (1966): (84).
Dadeshkeliani, Princess Kati. Princess in Uniform. London: G.Sell and Sons, 1934.
DiGuglielmo, Tina. “The Role of Women in the Soviet Armed Forces: Past, Present and Future.” Beyond glasnost : Soviet reform and security issues. Ed. Twining, David Thomas. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 39-65.
Erickson, John. “Night Witches, Snipers and Laundresses.” History Today 40. (1990): 29-35.
Farmborough, Florence. With the Armies of the Tsar. New York: Stein and Day, 1975.
Flerovsky, Alexei. “Women Flyers of Fighter Planes.” Soviet Life May 1975: 28-29.
Greenwood, James R. “Russia’s Female Fighter Pilots.” Popular Aviation Nov/Dec 1967 1967: 9-13.
Griesse, Anne Elliott. “Soviet Women and World War II: Mobilization and Combat Policies.” Master’s thesis. Georgetown University, 1980.
Hill, Georgia D. “Women and the Soviet Armed Forces.” US Army Institute of Advanced Russian Studies, Oberammergau, Germany, 1961.
Johnson, Richard. “The Role of Women in the Russian Civil War (1917-1921).” Conflict 2.2 (1980): 201-17.
Keyssar, Helene and Vladimir Pozner. Remembering War: A U.S.-Soviet Dialogue. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.
King, B. “Soviet Women at War.” Anglo-Soviet Journal 3 (1942): 71-82.
Kosterina, Nina. The Diary of Nina Kosterina. Trans. Ginsburg, Mirra. New York: 1968.
Meyer, Alfred G. “The Impact of World War I on Russian Women’s Lives.” Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. Eds. Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel and Christine D. Worobec. Berkeley: U California P, 1991. 208-224.
Mitroshenkov, V. “They Were First.” Soviet Military Review March 1969: 20-22.
Moats, Alice Leone. “Russian Women at War.” Colliers October 18 1941: 18, 49-51.
O’Brien, Mary Louise and Chris Jefferies. “Women and the Soviet Military.” Air University Review (1982): 77-79?
Odom, William E. The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Pavlichenko, Liudmila Mikhailovna. “I was a sniper”, The Road of Battle and Glory. Trans. Skvirsky, ed. I.M. Danishevskii and trans. David. Moscow: Politizdat, 1977.
Pennington, Reina. “Wings, Women and War: Soviet Women’s Military Aviation Regiments in the Great Patriotic War.” Master’s thesis. University of South Carolina, 1993.
Pennington, Reina. “Wings, Women and War.” Air & Space Smithsonian Dec/Jan 1993-94: 74-85.
Pennington, Reina. “‘Do Not Speak of the Services You Rendered’: Women Veterans of Aviation in the Soviet Union.” Journal of Slavic Military Studies 9.1 (1996): 120-151; reprinted in A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military. Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird. Longman, 2000.
Reed, Mary E. “The Anti-Fascist Front of Women and the Communist Party in Croatia: Conflicts within the Resistance.” Women in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Ed. Yedlin, Tova. New York: Praeger, 1980. 128-139.
Reisner, L. M. Svyazhsk. An Epic of the Russian Civil War – 1918. Trans. Jensen, John G. Wright and Amy. Maradana: Hashim Press, 1948.
Ruthchild, Rochelle. Women in Russia and the Soviet Union : an annotated bibliography. New York: Maxwell Macmillan, 1993.
Rybalkina, Natalia. “A Visit to the ‘Night Witches’.” Soviet Woman November 1990:
Slepyan, Kenneth D. “The Limits of Mobilisation: Party, State and the 1927 Civil Defence Campaign.” Europe-Asia Studies 45.5 (1993): 851-868.
Slepyan, Kenneth D. “”The People’s Avengers”: Soviet Partisans, Stalinist Society and the Politics of Resistance, 1941-1944.” PhD dissertation. University of Michigan, 1994.
Smith, Gregory Malloy. “The Impact of World War II on Women, Family Life, and Mores in Moscow, 1941-1945.” PhD dissertation. Stanford, 1989.
Stites, Richard. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia; Feminism, Nihilism and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Stoff, Laurie. “They Fought for Russia: Female Soldiers of the First World War.” A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military. Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird. Longman, 2000. 66-82.
Truby, J. David. “Russia’s Female Snipers.” Modern Gun October unk: 27-29, 73.
Yurlova, Marina. Cossack Girl. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1934.
Zabavskaia, Liudmila. “Women’s Guards Regiment.” Soviet Military Review March 1972: 46-48.
Zabavskaia, Liudmila. “Women Fighter Pilots.” Soviet Military Review March 1977: 61-62.
Zabavskaia, Liudmila. “Not a Job for the Women.” Soviet Military Review March 1989: 20-21.
Zaloga, Steven J. “Soviet Air Defense Radar in the Second World War.” Journal of Soviet Military Studies 2.3 (1988): 104-116.
Zhigulenko, Evgenia. “Those Magnificent Women in Their Flying Machines.” Soviet Life May 1990: 12-15.Slepyan, Kenneth D. “The Limits of Mobilisation: Party, State and the 1927 Civil Defence Campaign.” Europe-Asia Studies 45.5 (1993): 851-868.
Wade, Rex. Red Guards and Worker’s Militias in the Russian Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.
Russia/Soviet Union/Central Europe (not in English)
Amirov, V. “Zhenshchiny v shinely.” Krasnaia zvezda 27 Oct 1988: 6.
Anishchenkov, Panteleimon Stepanovich and Vasilii Yerofeyevich Shurinov. Tret’ia vozdushnaia: Voenno-istoricheskii ocherk o boevom puti VVS Kalininskogo fronta i 3-i vozdushnoi armii v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [The Third Air Army: a military-historical essay of the campaign record of the Air Forces of the Kalinin Front and the Third Air Army during the Great Patriotic War]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1984.
Baiukanski, A. B. Ee Zvali Volod’koi: stranitsy zhizni Marii Kuz’minichny Shcherbak [They Called Her Volodka: pages from the life of Mariia Kuzminichna Shcherbak]. Moscow: Politizdat, 1988.
Barmin, A. “Kavaler ordena Slavy.” Docheri Rossii. Ed. Cherniaeva, I. Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1975. 65-70.
Baturina, K. S., Ed. Pravda stavshaia legendoi. [Truth Became a Legend]. Moscow: 1964.
Bochkareva, E. and S. Liubimova. Svetlyi put’. kommunisticheskaia partiia – sovetskogo soiuza – Borets za svobodu, ravnopravie i schast’e zhenshchiny [Shining path. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Fighter for the liberation, equal rights and happiness of women]. Moscow: Politizdat, 1967.
Bogat, A.P. Rabotnitsa i Krest’ianka v Krasnoi Armii [Women Workers and Peasants in the Red Army]. Moscow-Leningrad: Gosizdat, 1928.
Bogat, A.P. Rabotnitsa i Krest’ianka na strazhe SSSR [Women Workers and Peasants Guard the Soviet Union]. Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1930.
Bogat, A.P. “V Ogne Grazhdanskoi Voiny.” Oktyabrem Rozhdennye. Moscow: Politizdat, 1967.
Chechneva, Marina. Nebo ostaetsia nashim [The Sky Remains Ours]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1976.
Cherniaeva, I., Ed. Docheri Rossii. Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1975.
Chirkov, P. M. “Zhenshchiny v Krasnoi Armii v gody Grazhdanskoi Voiny i Imperialisticheskoi Interventsii (1918-1920).” [“Women in the Red Army in the Years of the Civil War and Imperialist Intervention, 1918-1920.”] Istoriia SSSR 6 (1975): 103-114.
Dmitrieva, T.V. “Rol’ zhenshchin Urala v Bor’be protiv Interventov i Belogvardeitsev i Okazanii Pomoshchi Fronty (mai 1918-1920gg).” Avtoreferat: Dissertation abstract. Sverdlovsk, 1985.
Dospanova, K. Pod Komandovaniem Raskovoi: Vospominaniia Voennoi Letchitsy [Under Raskova’s Command: Memoirs of a Woman Military Pilot]. Alma-Ata: Kazgolitizdat, 1960.
Durova, Nadezhda. Zapiski Aleksandrova (Durovoi). Dobavlenie k Devitse-kavalerist [Notes of Aleksandrov-Durova. Addendum to “The Cavalry Maiden]. Moscow: 1839.
Durova, Nadezhda. Zapiski kavalerist-devitsy. Moscow: 1962.
Galagan, Valentina Yakovlevna. Ratny podvig zhenshchiny v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [Military Feats of Women during the Great Patriotic War]. Kiev: Vysshaia shkola, 1986.
Gorodov, I. A. and N. I. Shapkin. Moi dorogie devochki . . . [My Dear Girls . . .]. Omsk: Omsk Book Publishing, 1990.
Gorski, Grzegorz. “Sluzba Wojskowa Kobiet w ZWZ-AK.” Dzieje Najnowsze (1988).
Gvozdev, Georgii Borisovich. Dni Ispitanii I Muzhestva [Days of Trial and Courage]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1977.
Ivanov, Iu. “I na Rusi byli Amazonki.” [“There were Amazons in Russia, too.”] Armiia 5 (1992): 44-49.
Ivanova, Iu. N. “Zhenshchiny v Istorii Rossiiskoi Armii.” [“Women in the History of the Russian Army.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1992): 86-89.
Ivanova, Iu. N. “Prekrasneishie iz khrabrykh.” [“The fairest of the brave.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1994): 93-96.
Ivanova, Yu. N. “Vypusknitsy voennykh akademii.” [“Women Graduates of Military Academies.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 8 (1993): 88-89.
Ivanova, Yu. N. “Problem khvatalo i bez nikh, no . . .” Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 6 (1994): 75-77.
Khristinin, Iu. N. “Ne radi nagrad, no radi tokmo rodnogo narodu.” Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 1 (1994): 92-93.
Kikabidze, M. K. Naravne s Muzhchinami [On a Par with Men]. Kutaisi: Sabchota Sakartvelo, 1984.
Kirsanov, N. A. and V. F. Cheremisov. “Zhenshchiny v voiskakh protivo-vozdushnoi oborony v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny.” Istoriia SSSR 3 (1975): 63-75.
Klopina, T. “Khronika, fakty, nakhodki.” Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1976): 126.
Kolibaba, G. N. “Zhenshchiny na voennoi slyzhbe.” [“Women in military service”] Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 3rd ed.
Kolomiets, T. K. “Chapaevtsy stoiali na smert.” U chernomorskikh tverdyn. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1967. 216-217.
Kosven, M. O. “Amazonki: istoriia legendy.” Sovetskaia etnographiia 2 (1947): 33-59.
Kotelenets, A.I., Ed. Zhenshchiny Strany Sovetov. Kratkii istoricheskii ocherk. [Women of the Soviet Land. Short historical essay]. Moscow: Politizdat, 1977.
Krivich, G.D. Zhenshchiny-snaipery [Women Snipers]. Leningrad: Znanie, 1966.
Lebedev, Z. “Znak osobogo otlichiia.” [“An Award of Special Distinction.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 10 (1979): 84-87.
Levchenko, Irina. Povest’ o voennykh godakh [The Story of the War Years]. 2nd ed. Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1965.
Litvinova, Larisa Nikolaevna. Letiat skovz’ gody [They Fly Through the Years]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1983.
Makhrova, A. “Iz istorii zhenskogo dvizheniia v Krasnoi armii i na flote v 30-e gody.” [“From the History of Women’s Movement in the Red army and in the Navy in the 1930s.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1972): 88-95.
Makhrova, A. “Patrioticheskoe dvizhenie za podgotovku medsester v Krasnoi armii i na flote (1938-1940 gg.).” [“Patriotic Activity for the Training of Nurses in the Red army and in the Navy (1938-1940).”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1974): 93-96.
Mandel’shtam, L. I. Sbornik Zakonov SSSR i Ukazov Prezidiuma Verkhonogo Soveta SSSR 1938-1958. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel’stvo Iuridicheskoi Literatury, 1959.
Medvedeva, Liudmila. “Zhenshchina v pogonakh (ili bez onykh).” [“Woman in shoulder-boards (or without them).”] Znamia 2 (1990): 160-169.
Migunova, E. A. Prodolzheniie podviga [Continuation of an Achievement]. Moscow: DOSAAF, 1976.
Miniaeva, I. N., Ed. Srazhalas’ za Rodinu: pisma i dokumenty geroin’ Velikoi Otechestvenoi voiny. [She Fought in Battle for the Motherland: Letters and Documents of the Heroines of the Great Patriotic War]. Moscow: Mysl’, 1964.
Mitrofanova, A. V. Rabochy klass SSSR v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [The Working Class of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War]. Moscow: Nauka, 1971.
Mizin, V. M. Snaiper Petrova. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1988.
Modorov, N. S. V trude i v boiu [In Labor and in Battle]. Gorno-Altaysk: Altay Book Publishing, 1990.
Murmantseva, Vera Semenova. “Sovetskie zhenshchiny v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941-1945.” [“Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.”] Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal 2 (1968): 47-54.
Murmantseva, Vera Semenova. Zhenshchiny v soldatskikh shineliakh [Women in Soldiers’ Overcoats]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1971.
Murmantseva, Vera Semenova. Sovetskie zhenshchiny v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941-1945 [Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945]. Moscow: Mysl’, 1974.
Murmantseva, Vera Semenova. Sovetskie zhenshchiny v Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine 1941-1945 [Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945]. Moscow: Mysl’, 1974.
Murmantseva, V. S. “Ratny i trudovoi podvig sovetskikh zhenshchin.” [“Military and Labor Feats of Soviet Women.”] Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal 5 (1985): 73-81.
Naumova, A. I. “Zhenshchina s Barrikady.” Leningradki: Vospominanie, ocherki, dokumenty. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1968.
Nemirov, N. G., Ed. Kniga o geroiakh. [Book About Heroes]. Vol. 2. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1963.
Nikiforova, E., Ed. Rozhdennaia voinoi. [Destined for War]. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1985.
Polivanov, A. N. “Voiteli iz roda Polivanovykh.” [“Warriors of the Polivanov Family.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 1-2 (1994): 60-69, 57-64.
Popovich, M. L. “Nebesnaia Diana.” [“A Heavenly Diana.”] Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal 3 (1995): 86-88.
Raskova, Marina and E. A. Migunova. Zapiski Shturmana/Prodolzheniie Podviga [Notes of a Navigator / Continuation of a Victory]. Moscow: DOSAAF, 1976.
Shamiakin, I. P., Ed. Navechno v serdtse narodnom. [Forever in People’s Hearts]. 3rd ed. Minsk: Belorusskaia Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, 1983.
Shkadov, I. N., Ed. Geroi Sovetskogo Soiuza: kratkii biograficheskii slovar’. [Hero of the Soviet Union: A Short Biographical Dictionary]. 2 vols. Vol. 2 (Liubov-Yashchuk). Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988.
Sinitsyn, A.M. “Put’ muzhestva i otvagi.” Geroi ognennykh let. Ed. Sinitsyn, A.M. Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1983. 704-710.
Snaipery [Snipers]. Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1976.
Stalin, Joseph. Vypuska iz prikaza narodnogo komissara oborony soiuza SSR No. 0099. 8 Oct 1941. TsAMO, Fond Engel’skoi aviashkoly pilotov, No. F. 60396, op. 35912, delo 58, kor. 4014, s. 103.
Surkov. “Otvazhnie geroini fronta.” [“Esteemed Heroines of the Front.”] Rabotnitsa 2-3 (1945): 2.
Toropov, L. F., Ed. Geroini: Ocherki o Zhenshchinakh — Geroiakh Sovetskogo Soiuza. [Heroines: Biographical Sketches of Women Heroes of the Soviet Union]. 2 vols. Vol. 2. Moscow: Politizdat, 1969.
Vaskovskiy, Ya. Ya. Podvig Pulemetchitsy [Feat of a Woman Machine Gunner]. Odessa: Mayak, 1985.
Verkhozin, A. “Komandir polka.” Geroini: ocherki o zhenshchinakh — Geroiakh Sovetskogo Soiuza. Ed. Toropov, L. F. Moscow: Politizdat, 1969. Vol. I: 133-142.
Zhuravlev, D. A. Ognevoi Shchit Moskvy [The Fiery Defense of Moscow]. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1972.