When you think of women participating in World War I, you probably have an image of a nurse or a woman on the home front baking cookies, knitting socks, and writing letters to the chaps on the front line. What doesn’t immediately come to mind is the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death led by the fearless Maria Bochkareva.

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Reflection Questions:

1. Why might Russian women have found fighting a war an escape?
2. What factors might affect the reliability of ghost-written memoirs?
3. In this episode it tells the perspective of Maria Bochkareva and some Western newspapers. Whose perspective is missing? What other perspectives might we need to get a fuller picture of the events surrounding the women’s battalions?
4. The army believed that using women soldiers would bring shame to the male soldiers, do you believe this tactic would be very effective? Why or why not?

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