Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army. The majority were in medical units.

 .第二次世界大戰期間蘇聯婦女,貢獻出自己寶貴的生命及生產力,參加衛國戰爭,抵抗納粹黨德軍的攻擊,她們除了直接參軍外,就是在軍工廠生產武器彈藥,提供前方戰士使用,她們中間有優秀的神槍手及飛行員,以及軍中護士與政工文康隊,到前線陣地唱歌跳舞,鼓舞士氣功不可沒.在蘇聯女性戰鬥英雄同樣的被授予獎章表揚.由於女性有生理期,但是在第二次世界大戰期間,多數的婦女經期混亂,甚至於停經,因為食物營養不足,導致於許多婦女沒有月經,甚至於影響懷孕生產,總而言之在那個戰爭的年代裡,一切都是未知數.能夠活者生存下來實屬不易.

 There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war^] which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel. The number of women in the Soviet military in 1943 was 348,309, 473,040 in 1944, and then 463,503 in 1945.^] Of the medical personnel in the Red Army, 40% of paramedics, 43% of surgeons, 46% of doctors, 57% of medical assistants, and 100% of nurses were women Nearly 200,000 were decorated and 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Unions highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, among which some served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles.

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偉大的斯拉夫民族婦女同胞列隊整裝出發上戰場巾幗不讓鬚眉是勇敢的紅軍女戰士永遠前進.

Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young womens en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence.

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"Soviet women played an extraordinary role in World War II. Their counterparts in other countries served as military auxiliaries; in the USSR many women fought in the front lines of the ground war or took a direct part in the air fighting, and many of them were killed in action. Anna Krylovas book is the first to systematically study this, and her scope extends to the prewar social and gender context and to the postwar telling of the story. Soviet Women in Combat makes an important contribution to the social history of the war and is also a milestone in the gender history of Stalinist and post-Stalinist Russia."  .