May 8 marks 80 years since people across Europe celebrated the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. While the fighting in the ...

Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...

The image of a devoted woman waiting for her husband at war is deeply embedded and romanticized in Russian culture, from ...

During WWII, Yevgeniya (Zhenya) Rudneva, a 20-year-old astronomy student in Moscow, joined the newly created women-only regiment of the Soviet Air Forces. In her diary, Zhenya offers a rare ...