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This paper will discuss how after being suddenly reformed because of the loss of their ability to work (and fight), the tsar's peasant soldiers were compelled to reinvent themselves. In a society overmobilized by the war effort, and later by the "construction of socialism", they were not anymore members of fighters', able-bodied field workers', non-traumatised husbands and fathers' communities. Forced to adhere to the overall discourse of the "second chance", they ought to negotiate a path between the moral and economic imperatives imposed on them, and totally insufficient reintegration opportunities, to transform a personal disaster into an improved way of life.