Conscripted: A True Tale from the Soviet Army

by J.A. McCaughan

"Conscripted" is the true story of Alec, a middle-class Muscovite, originally from Odesa, Ukraine, who was drafted into the medical squad of the Soviet Army in the late 1980s, just prior to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Follow him through the trials and tribulations that faced all Soviet conscripts and gain insight into the Soviet psychology of that time.

268 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2020

Reviews

[donald huff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good memoir on conscription in the Soviet Army

Gives a good picture of life in the army during the last years of the Soviet Union. From the point of view of a medic conscript. Violence and hazing seemed natural.