Gender and policing in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944-1948

Abstract

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Ethnic Conflict and Minority Refugee Flight from Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1991–2001

“…By this time, I had done considerable work of my own on patterns of gender violence during and after World War II, and had produced an article on the Moskalka phenomenon, where I studied the ways in which thousands of Ukrainian women in the late 1940s who were suspected of collaboration with the Soviet enemy were targeted for violent nationalist reprisals. 20 The case involved a 21-year-old ethnic Russian woman living in a central Ukrainian city. Olga V. had lived her happy life in a well-to-do family until, one evening in March 1999, she and her boyfriend-an American college student studying in Ukraine-were interviewed on local television at the gala opening of a local discothèque.…”

Militarizing Women in the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement from the 1930s to the 1950s

“…125 Jeffrey Burds estimates that more than 90 percent of the Ukrainian nationalist underground liaisons were women. 126 They were responsible for gathering and dispatching intelligence, literature, and fake documents, and for ensuring the procurement of the necessary provisions (including medication, food, clothes, and stationery). 127 The OUN instructions state that a woman who undertakes such a role "should thus be an actor, should wear garments, have an appearance and use language and behavior appropriate for the terrain on which she operates" in order to blend in and not risk revealing her, and thus the organization's, true objectives.…”

“…have not yet discussed, represented by studies conducted by Olena Petrenko, Marta Havryshko, and Jeffrey Burds. 29 These works do not romanticize the nationalist movement and focus on the neglected aspects of gender dynamics of the underground, such as sexual violence or instrumentalized use of sexuality. My article also makes use of wider examinations of Ukrainian women's movements in the relevant period, especially that by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak.…”

Le héros et la martyre ou le viol effacé (Lituanie 1944-2000)

“…32 Grossmann 1995: 53. 33 Naimark 1995;Burds 2001;Grossmann 1995. Ėė Spirgeviтius 1992 complaint was written, or even to the desire not to draw attention to the husband's dubious activities (cf.…”

“…36 Denis 2008; Cerovic 2012. 37 Cerovic 2012: 332-ĖĖ7; Burds 2009. prevailed both within the army and among partisan fighters at this time: the idea that war is all-effacing, that it is legitimate for a fighter to satisfy his desire, and that women in the occupied territories and behind the lines had lost all sense of propriety and threw themselves at soldiers. 38 Fifteen years later, was rape considered a more serious offence?…”