Women’s dayly life of on the fronts of World War II: Based on materials from the Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of everyday life of Kazakhstani women on the fronts of World War II. The purpose of this study is to actualize attention to the problematic issues of female front-line daily routines (difficulties, life, male chauvinism, violence). This article, based on interviews collected by the Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War (Scientific Archive of the IRI RAS, Fund 2), tells the stories of everyday life of women in Kazakhstan on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Some plots of fate and stories of participation of Kazakhstani girls in the war were tracked; fragments of transcripts of conversations with them during the Great Patriotic War are given.