{"product_id":"military-masculinity-and-postwar-recovery-in-the-soviet-union-hardback-9781442637207","title":"Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union (Hardback) 9781442637207","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMilitary Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErica L. Fraser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442637207\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Throughout the book, the author emphasizes the ways in which military masculinity was defined in opposition to femininity and with disregard to women\u0026amp;#x2019;s responsibilities and accomplishments. For these reasons, this book would be useful for students as a model of both thoughtful source interpretation and thorough gender analysis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Deborah A. Field, Adrian College (\u003cem\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"As she explores the process of reclaiming military masculinity in the postwar period in the context of competing masculinities in the Soviet landscape, Fraser divides her study into sections according to her source base, beginning with archival sources of military and Komsomol institutions and then moving on to sexualized and gendered imagery from Krokodil, then to memoir literature from nuclear physicists, and finally to the public celebrity of the first cosmonauts in the 1960s. Her use of a wide variety of sources and viewpoints allows for a unique perspective into \u0026amp;#x2018;how hegemony as a relational form was reconfirmed and maintained – as part of postwar recovery narratives.\u0026amp;#x2019;\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Greta Bucher, U.S. Military Academy, West Point (\u003cem\u003eThe Russian Review, Vol 79\u003c\/em\u003e, July 2020) \u003cp\u003e\"This study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Soviet masculinities as it powerfully shows how worries over postwar manhood shaped Cold War security concerns.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Brandon Gray Miller, Southern Methodist University (\u003cem\u003eCanadian Slavonic Papers\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"Fraser has written a solid monograph that fills a significant lacuna in the historiography of the Soviet Union. […] This pioneering work is a concise, overall well-written piece of scholarship that showcases an impressive toolbox full of methodologies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Brandon Schechter, New York University (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatastrophic 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMilitary Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSoviet Masculinities \u003cbr\u003eThe Soviet Union after the War \u003cbr\u003eSources and Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Martial Masculinities and the Postwar Armed Forces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Conscripting Soviet Manhood \u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eConscription in War and Peace \u003cbr\u003e    DOSAAF and Young Men in Civilian Defence \u003cbr\u003e    \"No One is Interested\": Avoiding DOSAAF \u003cbr\u003e    Cataloguing Evasion \u003cbr\u003e    Soldiers without an Army: Khrushchev\u0026amp;#x2019;s Troop Reductions \u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Looking for Role Models in Education and Literature\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eWar Orphans and Boyhood at the Suvorov Academies\u003cbr\u003e    Cadets and Community Surveillance of Masculine Behaviour\u003cbr\u003e    Defence Instructors as Surrogate Fathers\u003cbr\u003e    Masculine Role Models in Literature and Film\u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Martial Masculinities Outside the Military during the Early Cold War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Gender and Militarism in Foreign Affairs Cartoons\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eSex, Humour, and Visual Culture\u003cbr\u003e    Franco in a Skirt: Cross-dressing and Misogyny\u003cbr\u003e    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAssaulting Marianne\u003cbr\u003e    The Soviet Counterpoint\u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Telling Manly Stories About Nuclear Physics\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eMasculinity and \"Scientific Impotence\"\u003cbr\u003e    The Gendered Cold War Workplace\u003cbr\u003e    \"Some Kind of God\": Rearming a Soviet Prometheus\u003cbr\u003e    Telling Manly Stories\u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Martial Masculinity and the Cosmonaut Brotherhood\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eGendering Sputnik\u003cbr\u003e    Even Martian Girls Want to Date Gagarin\u003cbr\u003e    The Cosmonaut\u0026amp;#x2019;s Wife\u003cbr\u003e    Cosmonaut Masculinity on Tour\u003cbr\u003e    Conclusion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702184571160,"sku":"9781442637207","price":38.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/military-masculinity-and-postwar-recovery-in-the-soviet-union-hardback-9781442637207","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}