Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War

Author:   Natalie Belsky (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032332154


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   19 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War


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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 Eurasia on individuals, communities, and society more broadly. It explores how the challenges associated with wartime displacement gave rise to tensions between evacuees and local residents. These frictions, in turn, forced individuals to interrogate the meaning, terms, and limitations of citizenship and belonging in the Soviet Union. Evacuation thus played a critical role in the changing relationship between citizens and the Soviet state in the war and postwar periods. Furthermore, this study pays particular attention to the plight of Soviet Jewish evacuees, who constitute the largest contingent of Holocaust survivors in Europe, and the rise of anti-Semitism on the Soviet home front during the war. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Second World War, migration and displacement, the Holocaust, Soviet Jewish history, and the Soviet experience more broadly.

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Author:   Natalie Belsky (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781032332154


ISBN 10:   1032332158
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   19 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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Natalie Belsky is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Political Science and International Studies at University of Minnesota Duluth.

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