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

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....

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