Zalietok, N. (2022). Zhinky na viiskovii sluzhbi u Velykii Brytanii ta SRSR u roky Druhoi svitovoi viiny [Women in military service in Great Britain and the USSR during the Second World War]. Foliant.
Annotation: This monograph offers a comparative analysis of British and Soviet policy on women’s military service during the Second World War. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources and existing historiography, the study outlines the social position of women in Great Britain and the USSR on the eve of the war and identifies the distinctive features of women’s recruitment into the army and paramilitary formations during the interwar period. The work examines the legal and regulatory framework governing women’s service in military formations during the Second World War, and clarifies the specificity and conditions of women’s service in the armed forces of Great Britain and the USSR between 1939 and 1945. It traces how the question of women’s service during the Second World War was treated in the public statements of politicians and compares the approaches taken to the organization of British and Soviet propaganda concerning women’s recruitment into military units. The study also outlines the particularities of the demobilization and commemoration of women veterans of the Second World War in Great Britain and the USSR, and analyzes the sociocultural interpretation of women veterans’ experience — by the women themselves and by other members of British and Soviet society.