1st Edition
Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War
By Natalie Belsky
Copyright 2024
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.
The book considers the impact of this episode of massive population displacement across... Read more
Introduction: Encounters in the East
1. Endless Itinerancy: Evacuee Journeys to Sites of Resettlement
2. Unwanted Neighbors: The Struggle Over Evacuee Housing
3. The “Right to Be Useful” and the Debates Over Evacuee Employment
4. The Home Front Economy and the Leningrad Ration
5. “You Are Not an Orphan:” The Campaign in Defense of Evacuated Children
6. Soviet and Jewish?: Antisemitism on the Home Front
Conclusion
Biography
Natalie Belsky is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Political Science and International Studies at University of Minnesota Duluth.
