They fought for the Motherland : Russia's women soldiers in World War I and the Revolution
Laurie Stoff (Author)
Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. Between the war's beginning and the October Revolution of 1917, approximately 6,000 women answered their country's call
Print Book, English, ©2006
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., ©2006
History
x, 294 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780700614851, 0700614850
69104328
The Russian context
Individual women soldiers, 1914-1917
Russia's first all-female combat unit
The women's military movement
The official women's combat units
The fate of the movement
Imaging the woman soldier
Conclusions