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First Name
Laurie
Last Name
Stoff
Country
United States
State
AZ Arizona
Affiliation
Arizona State University
Website URL
https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2457458
Keywords
Russian and East European History and Studies, Women's and Gender History and Studies, War and Society
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

My research focuses on the intersections of gender and war, specifically, Russian women and the Great War. My first book, They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution (University Press of Kansas, 2006), examines the experiences of the women who served as combatants during the First World War in Russia. My second book, Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More than Binding Men’s Wounds (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015) analyzes the participation of women in medical services during that conflict. This book has been awarded the Best Book in Slavic Studies by the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies and the Smith Award for Best Book in European History by the Southern Historical Association. As part of the international editorial team for the multi-volume project Russia’s Great War and Revolution, I am lead editor for a volume exploring the frontline experiences of various participants in the war.

Recent Publications

Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More than Binding Men’s Wounds. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Winner of the Best Book in Slavic Studies, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 2017, and the Smith Award for Best Book in European History, Southern Historical Society, 2016.

“The Military Revolution and War Experience,” in Daniel Orlovsky, ed., A Companion to the Russian Revolution. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2018.

“Russia’s Sisters of Mercy of World War I: Wartime Nursing Experiences,” in Laurie Stoff, Anthony Heywood, Boris Kolonitskii, and John Steinberg, eds. Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Frontline Experience: Soldiers, Nurses and Prisoners of War. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers (Indiana University), forthcoming, 2018.

“Russia’s Women Soldiers of the Great War,” in Laurie Stoff, Anthony Heywood, Boris Kolonitskii, and John Steinberg, eds. Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Frontline Experience: Soldiers, Nurses and Prisoners of War. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers (Indiana University), forthcoming, 2018.

“The Sounds, Odors, and Textures of Russian Wartime Nursing,” in Tricia Starks and Matthew Romaniello, eds. Russian History through the Senses: From 1700 to the Present. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2016: 117-140.

“The ‘Myth of the War Experience’ and Russian Wartime Nursing in World War I,” Aspasia, The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, Vol. 6 (2012):  96-116.

They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. Special selection of the History Book Club, 2007.

Media Coverage
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/obituaries/overlooked-maria-bochkareva.html
Country Focus
Russia
Expertise by Geography
Russia
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Military, Rebellion & Revolution, Women, World War I