Frontbeziehungen. Geschlechterverhältnisse und Gewaltdynamiken in der Roten Armee 1941–1945: Kerstin Bischl, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2019, 348pp., €28.00 p/b.

Bischl uses files on NKVD troops operating at the Second Ukrainian Front and in Germany from the Russian State War Archive (RGVA). Bischl's dissertation counters these positions and contributes more nuance to a difficult discourse. Kerstin Bischl takes us in her dissertation into a world of sexual violence inside the Red Army. [Extracted from the article]