Red Youth:
Young Heroes
of the Great Patriotic War
Red
Youth: Young
Heroes of the
Great Patriotic War
documents the extraordinary achievements of the young men and women of
the Soviet Union’s anti-fascist resistance during the Second
World War. The first volume of this series features newly
annotated editions of Soviet-era documents chronicling the life of
legendary partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman to
receive the distinction of “Hero of the Soviet
Union”
during the Second World War.
Contents include annotated editions of the following documents:
- Foreword
by
Mike
Bessler (view
full text)
- The
full text
of
Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya’s
1942 short work My
Daughter Zoya
- "How
it
Happened," a
selection from Lyubov
Kosmodemyanskaya’s 1953 work The Story of Zoya and
Shura
- "Guerilla
War," a
selection from the book Soviet
Calendar 1947: Thirty
Years of the Soviet State
- "The
Tasks of the Youth Leagues" by
V.I. Lenin (October 2, 1920)
- "Victory
Will
Be
Ours!" by J.V. Stalin
(July 3, 1941)
- "Stalin's
Victory
Address to the Soviet People" (May
9, 1945)
In February 2010, a copy of this book was accepted into the collection
of materials at the Zoya
Kosmodemyanskaya Museum in
Moscow. Read more about this on our blog.
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