Return to the Motherland : : Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War / / Seth Bernstein.

Return to the Motherland 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 19 b&w halftones, 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Conventions
  • Archival Abbreviations
  • Terms and Abbreviations
  • Recurring Personages
  • Map of Soviet annexations, 1939–45
  • Map of the division of postwar Germany
  • Introduction: Displaced in War and Peace
  • 1. Workers from the East: Deportation and Conditions of Labor among Eastern Workers
  • 2. Forced Labor Empire: Community, Transnational Contact, and Sex
  • 3. Collaboration and Resistance: Wartime Agency and Its Limits in Wustrau and Leipzig
  • 4. Liberated in a Foreign Land: Wild Re-Sovietization and the Choice to Return in Allied-Occupied Europe, 1945
  • 5. Ambiguous Homecoming: Social Tensions in Repatriation to the USSR
  • 6. Repatriation and the Economics of Coerced Labor: Between Punishment and Pragmatism
  • 7. A Return to Policing: Collaborators, Spies, and the Cold War under Late Stalinism
  • 8. Unheroic Returns: Returnee-Resisters, Historians, and Police
  • 9. Wayward Children of the Motherland: The Soviet Fight for Nonreturners in Western-Occupied Europe
  • 10. Return after Stalin: The Return to the Motherland Campaign in the 1950s
  • Conclusion: No One Is Forgotten, No One Is Forgiven
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources
  • Index