Minerva Bibliographies: Russia/Soviet Union/Central Europe (in English)

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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

  • ________, Ed.
    Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines
    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
  • Mathers, Jennifer G.
    Women in the Russian Armed Forces: A Marriage of Convenience?
    MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military     18.3-4 (2000): 129-141
  • 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: University of California Press, 1991. 208-224
  • 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
    • 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
       
    • Alexander, John
      Amazon Autocratrixes: Images of Female Rule in 18th Century Russia
      Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization. Ed. Barta, Peter I.
      London: Routledge, 2001
       
    • Alexander, John T.
      Catherine the Great
      New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
       
    • Armstrong, John
      Soviet Partisans in World War II
      Madison: U Wisconsin P, 1964
    • Atkinson, Dorothy, Alexander Dallin, and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus, eds.
      Women in Russia.
      Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977
    • 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

    • Barmin, A.
      A Bearer of the Order of Glory.
      The Golden-Tressed Soldier. Ed. Cottam, K. Jean.
      Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1984. 99-107

    • Blandford, Edmund L.
      Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS      .
      Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1994

    • Brontman, Lazar Konstantinovich and L. Khvat
      The Heroic Flight of the Rodina
      Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1938

    • Caminada, Jerome
      My Purpose Holds
      London: Jonathan Cape, 1952

    • Campbell, D’Ann
      Women in Combat: the World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union
      Journal of Military History 57.2 (1993): 301-323

    • Capin, M. Patricia
      Soviet “Girls” Can’t Fly: Common Sense
      Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 5.4 (1987)

    • Cassin-Scott, Jack
      Women At War 1939-1945
      Osprey Men-at-Arms 1980

    •  Clements, Barbara Evans
      Daughters of Revolution: A History of Women in the USSR
      Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1994

    • Clements, Barbara Evans
      Bolshevik Women
      Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997

    • 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)

    • ________.
      Veterans of Polish Women’s Combat Battalion Hold a Reunion
      Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 4. (1986): 1-7

    • Dadeshkeliani, Princess Kati
      Princess in Uniform
      London: G.Sell and Sons, 1934

    • De Madariaga, Isabel
      Catherine the Great
      New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990
       

    • ________.
      Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
      New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981

    • 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
    • Dombrowski, Nicole
      Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or without Consent
      New York: Garland, 1999
    • 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

    • Furst, Juliane
      Heroes, Lovers, Victims–Partisan Girls during the Great Fatherland War
      MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 18.3-4 (2000): 38-75

    • Garrard, John, Carol Garrard, and Stephen White, eds.
      World War 2 and the Soviet People
      New York: St. Martin’s, 1993

    • Greenwood, James R.
      Russia’s Female Fighter Pilots
      Popular Aviation Nov/Dec 1967: 9-13
    • Griesse, Anne Elliott
      Soviet Women and World War II: Mobilization and Combat Policies
      Master’s thesis: Georgetown University, 1980

    • Griesse, Anne Eliot and LCDR Margaret A. Harlow, USN
      Soldiers of Happenstance: Women in Soviet Uniform
      Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.3 (1985)

    • Grudistova, Mariya
      Defending the Skies of Moscow
      The Golden-Tressed Soldier
      Ed. Cottam, K. Jean
      Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1984. 125-135

    • Herspring, Dale R.
      Women In The Russian Military: A Reluctant Marriage
      Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 15.2 (1997): 42-59

    • 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

    • Johnson, Stephen P.L.
      A Kriegie’s Log
      Tunbridge Wells: Parapress, 1995
       

    • Julnes-Dehner, Noel
      Under Fire: Soviet Women Combat Veterans
      Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 15.2 (1997): 1-12

    • Kalinin, M. I.
      On Communist Education: Selected Speeches and Articles
      Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953

    • Kaverin, Venyamin
      The Story of a Partisan Doctor
      The Golden-Tressed Soldier
      Ed. Cottam, K. Jean.
      Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1984. 85-91

    • 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

    • Lentin, Ronit, Ed.
      Gender and Catastrophe
      New York: Zed Books, 1997

    • Lincoln’s Russian General
      Illinois State Historical Society Journal       (1959): 106

    • Mamonova, Tatyana
      Russian Women’s Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture
      New York: Pergamon, 1989

    • Memoirs of Catherine the Great. Interview with 1927
      New York

    • 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

    • Myles, Bruce
      Night Witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
      London: Mainstream Publishing, 1981
       

    • Naimark, Norman
      The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation 1945-49
      Belknap/Harvard

  • Noggle, Anne
    A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II
    College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994

    • O’Brien, Mary Louise and Chris Jefferies
      Women and the Soviet Military
      Air University Review (1982): 77-79?
    • O’Neill, Bill.
      Whatever became of Valentina Tereshkova?
      New Scientist 14 Aug 1993: 21-23
    • Odom, William E.
      The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization
      Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973

    • Partisan Madonna
      Soviet Soldier May 1988

    • 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
      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

    • 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

  • ________.
    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

    • ________.
      The Propaganda Factor and Soviet Women Pilots in World War II
      MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military XV. (1997): 13-41

    • ________.
      Stalin’s Falcons: the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment
      MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 18.3-4 (2000): 76-108

    • ________.
      Wings, Women and War
      Air & Space Smithsonian Dec/Jan 1993-94: 74-85

    • ________.
      Wings, Women and War: Soviet Women’s Military Aviation Regiments in the Great Patriotic War
      Master’s thesis. University of South Carolina, 1993

  • ________.
    Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat
    Modern War Studies
    Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001

  • ________.
    Women and Military Aviation in the Second World War: A Comparative Study of the USA and USSR, 1941-1945
    PhD dissertation. University of South Carolina, 2000

  • Poliakov, Aleksandr F.
    Russians Don’t Surrender
    Trans. Guterman, Norbert.
    New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942
     

  • Poole, Barbara
    Requiem for the Wasp
    Flying December 1944: 55-56, 146, 148

  • Pushkareva, Natalia
    Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
    Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997

  • 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

  • Roberts, Barney
    A Kind of Cattle
    Sydney: Australian War Memorial-Collins, 1985
     

  • Rowley, Alison
    Ready for Work and Defense: Visual Propaganda and Soviet Women’s Military Preparedness in the 1930’s
    MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 18.3-4 (2000): 3-15

  • 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

  • Rzhevskaia, Elena
    Roads and Days: The Memoirs of a Red Army Translator
    Journal of Slavic Military Studies 14.1 (2001): 53-106

  • Sartorti, Rosalinde
    On the Making of Heroes, Heroines, and Saints
    Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. Ed. Stites, Richard
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995
     

  • Sheldon, Sayre P.
    Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write About War
    Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999

  • 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

  • Smirnov, P. P. and E. V.
    Chistiakova
    eds. Alena Arzamasskaia-Temnikovskaia
    Saransk: 1986

  • Smith, Gregory Malloy
    The Impact of World War II on Women, Family Life, and Mores in Moscow, 1941-1945
    PhD dissertation: Stanford, 1989

  • Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War
    Soviet Military Review March 1975: 42-45

  • 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

  • Sulimirski, Tadeusz
    The Sarmatians
    New York: Praeger, 1970

  • Those Russian Women
    Literary Digest 29 Sep 1977?: 48

  • Truby, J. David
    Women at War: A Deadly Species
    Boulder, CO: Paladin

  • Truby, J. David
    “Russia’s Female Snipers.”
    Modern Gun October unk: 27-29, 73

  • Vassilyev, Boris
    The Dawns are Quiet Here
    Trans. Perham, Hilda and Natasha Johnstone
    Moscow: Progress, 1975

  • Vaughan, Geoffrey D.
    The Way It Really Was
    Budleigh Salterton: Granary Press, 1985

  • Wade, Rex
    Red Guards and Worker’s Militias in the Russian Revolution
    Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984

  • Warrior Women
    Literary Digest     19 Jun 1915: 1460

  • White, Christine A.
    Gossamer Wings: Women in Early Russian Aviation, 1910-1920
    Women in Aviation
    Ed. Lynch, Dr. Barbara. Parks College of Saint Louis University: 1991
     

  • Whitley, Joe
    They Fly That Men May Fight
    Family Circle 21 jan 1944: 12-13, 15, 18-19

  • Williamson, Gordon
    Loyalty Is My Honour: Personal Accounts from the Waffen-SS
    London: Brown Packaging Ltd., 1995
     

  • Williamson, Len
    Six Wasted Years
    Braunton: Merlin Books, 1988
     

  • The Women Warriors
    Lingua Franca Dec/Jan 1998

  • Yedlin, Tova, Ed.
    Women in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
    New York: Praeger, 1980

  • Young Girls Fighting on the Russian Front
    Current History May 1916: 366

  • 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
  • Zirin, Mary F.
    Nadezhda Andreevna Durova
    Dictionary of Russian Women Writers
    Ed. al, Marina Ledkovsky et.
    Westport CT: Greenwood, 1994. 163-66