Return to the motherland : displaced Soviets in World War II and the Cold War / Seth Bernstein
This book follows those who were displaced to the Third Reich back to the Soviet Union after the victory over Germany. At the end of World War II, millions of people from Soviet lands were living as refugees outside the borders of the USSR. Most had been forced laborers and prisoners of war, deporte...
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| Main Authors: | Bernstein, Seth (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2023 © 2023 |
| Series: | Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
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| Online Access: | Cover |
| Table of Contents |
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| Introduction : displaced in war and peace |
| Workers from the East : deportation and conditions of labor among Eastern workers |
| Forced labor empire : community, transnational contact, and sex |
| Collaboration and resistance : wartime agency and its limits in Wustrau and Leipzig |
| Liberated in a foreign land : wild re-Sovietization and the choice to return in Allied-occupied Europe, 1945 |
| Ambiguous homecoming : social tensions in repatriation to the USSR |
| Repatriation and the economics of coerced labor : between punishment and pragmatism |
| A return to policing : collaborators, spies, and the Cold War under late Stalinism |
| Unheroic returns : returnee-resisters, historians, and police |
| Wayward children of the motherland : the Soviet fight for nonreturners in Western-occupied Europe |
| Return after Stalin : the return to the motherland campaign in the 1950s |
| Conclusion : No one is forgotten, no one is forgiven. |
