Dr. Regina Kazyulina Publishes new book on women's wartime experiences.

Dr. Regina Kazyulina published a new book on women's wartime experiences: Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II.

During World War II, Nazi forces occupied large swaths of the western Soviet Union. In response to devastating losses on a contested front, Stalin first permitted and then encouraged women to join the Red Army and the resistance. Simultaneously, female civilians on occupied territory found themselves in an untenable position: they could resist the occupiers and face the possibly fatal consequences or engage in sexual barter, with all the risk, shame, and disapprobation that entailed. By reading official reports against the grain and incorporating rare personal documents, Kazyulina provides a multifaceted study of the realities for non-Jewish Soviet women—in the army or resistance, or at home in occupied territories—during and after Nazi occupation.