Only Soldiers and Only At The Frontline: Soviet Women of WWII in Combat & Memory
Only Soldiers and Only At The Frontline: Soviet Women of WWII in Combat & Memory
- Date:
- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- Main Auditorium
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds High School Senior Citizen
- Categories:
- Author Visit Humanities
Join Durham County Library for a special lecture on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. Dr. Anna Krylova of the Duke University History Department will deliver a presentation on women of the Soviet Union in active service on the frontline, their experiences, and the legacy of their contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany and victory of the Allied powers.
Anna Krylova is an associate professor at Duke in the Department of History with a joint appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. She is the author of Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the winner of the 2011 AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.he has been Fellow at the National Humanities Center; George Kennan Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Fellow at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and visiting scholar at the Institute of Eastern European History at Tubingen University.