In the Trenches

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya (1902–1990) served in the Russian army until 1917, then became a soldier and a nurse for the Red Army during the Civil War (1917–1922). After the Civil War, she worked as a typist for the Red Army in Moscow and later became a writer. The Communist Party sent her to Tajikistan in 1931, and on her return to Moscow, she became active with the Union of Soviet Writers, earning a reputation as a Communist Party informant.