Military masculinity and postwar recovery in the Soviet Union / Erica L. Fraser.

"Catastrophic wartime casualties and postwar discomfort with the successes of women who had served in combat roles combined to shatter prewar ideals about what service meant for Soviet masculine identity. The soldier had to be re-imagined and resold to a public that had just emerged from the Se...

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Main Author: Fraser, Erica L., 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Military masculinity and the postwar armed forces
  • Conscripting Soviet manhood
  • Looking for early models in education and literature
  • Military masculinity outside the armed forces during the early Cold War
  • Gender and militarism in foreign affairs cartoons
  • Telling manly stories about nuclear physics
  • Military masculinity and the cosmonaut brotherhood.