| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part One: Military Masculinity and the Postwar Armed Forces; 1 Conscripting Soviet Manhood; 2 Looking for Role Models in Education and Literature; Part Two: Military Masculinity outside the Armed Forces during the Early Cold War; 3 Gender and Militarism in Foreign Affairs Cartoons; 4 Telling Manly Stories about Nuclear Physics; 5 Military Masculinity and the Cosmonaut Brotherhood; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"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 Second World War, and a younger generation suspicious of state control. In doing so, Soviet military culture wrote women out and attempted to re-establish soldiering as the premier form of masculinity in society. Military Masculinity combines textual and visual analysis, as well as archival research to highlight the multiple narratives that contributed to rebuilding military identities. Each chapter visits a particular site of this reconstruction, including debates about conscription and evasion, appropriate role models for cadets, misogynist military imagery in cartoons, the fraught militarized workplaces of nuclear physicists, and the first cohort of cosmonauts, who represented the completion of the project to rebuild militarized masculinity."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Masculinity -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
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Militarism -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century
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Men -- Soviet Union -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Militarism.
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Men -- Identity.
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Masculinity.
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Soviet Union.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442624719 |
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144262471X |
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