To the Tashkent Station : : Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War / / Rebecca Manley.

In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Stati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 9 halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Conceiving Evacuation: From Refugee to Evacuee
  • 2. The Official Mind of Evacuation: Policy in the Wake of the Invasion
  • 3. Evacuations in Practice
  • 4. Popular Responses
  • 5. The Journey East
  • 6. Survival on the Tashkent Front
  • 7. "Our War" in Tashkent
  • 8. The Return
  • Conclusion: The Memory and Meaning of Evacuation
  • Index