Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin : : Refugee Scientists in the USSR / / David K Zimmerman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Zimmerman, David K,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 b&w illustrations and 1 table

In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Scholars and Scientists -- 2 German Scientists in the Soviet Union before Hitler -- 3 Scientists and Communists -- 4 Scientists in Flight to the Soviet Union -- 5 Living in Stalin’s Soviet Union -- 6 Refugee Scholarship in the Soviet Union -- 7 The Great T error -- 8 Into Stalin’s Frying Pan -- 9 From Stalin’s Frying Pan into Hitler’s Fire -- 10 From the Great Terror to the Shoah -- 11 Survival and Triumph -- 12 The Ensnared in the Cold War -- 13 The Long Ordeal -- Conclusion: The Ensnared and History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index