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Are these women's reactions perpetuating or constructing a fantasy about Soviet women's wartime service? It puts me in mind of Lyudmila Pavlichenko's snappy responses to American women who asked ...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-female-masculinity-meets-the-masculinity-crisis-marko/#comment-2886163

Thank you, Marko! This is *your* book discussion; it is very kind of you to say nice things about mine. It really is a marvellous position for us Soviet gender historians to be in, to have enough...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-marko-responds-to-erica/#comment-2886070

In reply to Adrianne Jacobs. Thanks for chiming in, Adrianne! I admit when...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-women-war-and-crisis-erica-fraser/#comment-2886065

Like Adrienne I found myself wondering about both Marko's analysis of masculinity in crisis and the discussion of it in the posts here. Can we even pinpoint a time/place when masculinity is *not*...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-the-complicated-politics-of-masculinities-robert-corber/#comment-2885992

I agree 100% about how Marko's book would have been so valuable while watching Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears! I had a similar thought myself, recalling the first time I saw the film as a second...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-father-time-eliot-borenstein/#comment-2885987

Thank you for bringing in an additional comparative perspective! It's very thought provoking (and makes me want to rewatch some of the films you mention). It also brings me back to a question tha...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-the-complicated-politics-of-masculinities-robert-corber/#comment-2885986

To weigh in on the "crisis" question, I have to say that the idea of a "crisis of masculinity" in the postwar USSR (or at least in Soviet Russia) does ring true for me. In my own research on post...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-marko-responds-to-erica/#comment-2885985

This question about the relationship of the war to postwar masculinities is a compelling one. It clear that the war and its demographic impact played a substantial role in shaping both realities ...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2021/06/men-out-of-focus-women-war-and-crisis-erica-fraser/#comment-2885982

relevant Bloomsbury book recommendation: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade.

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2016/07/interwar-emigres/#comment-2885534

I have been reading about father Herman‘s voyage with other monks from the Valaam Monastery near Finland to Alaska in 1794, a voyage which took them one year. In looking for any description of ...

https://russianhistoryblog.org/2012/01/imagining-the-petersburg-moscow-road-in-the-late-18th-century/#comment-2885512