In the Trenches
In the Trenches Tatiana L. Often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front, Dubinskaya's stark and unsparing story presents a rare look at women in combat and one of the few works of fiction set on…
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In the Trenches
Tatiana L. Often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front, Dubinskaya's stark and unsparing story presents a rare look at women in combat and one of the few works of fiction set on the eastern front.Zinaida, a Russian schoolgirl, runs away from home to join the army. Dubinskaya's autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union.
Undercurrents of revolutionary thinking filter into the ranks as morale begins to crumble. Sent to the front, she endures the horrors of trench warfare and the hardships of military life. Zinaida must come to grips with the havoc unleashed by the czar's overthrow and the new socialist government's attempts to impose revolutionary reforms on the army.
Destabilization and desertion follow, and her regiment joins the chaotic mass retreat of the