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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Erica L., 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Masculinity.

Militarism--Soviet Union--History--20th century.

Militarism.

Men--Soviet Union--Identity--History--20th century.

Men.

Men--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

History.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.

ISBN:

144263720X

9781442637207

OCLC:

1029803700