- Summary
- "At the end of World War II, millions of people arrived in the Soviet Union from wartime displacement. This book follows the displaced from the Third Reich back to the Soviet Union, revealing how the tumult of war created new identities, prospects, and dangers for migrants"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
Battlegrounds (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Bernstein, Seth, author.
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023
©2023
- Locale
- Soviet Union
- Contents
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Introduction: Displaced in war and peace
Workers from the East
Forced labor empire
Collaboration and resistance
Liberated in a foreign land
Ambiguous return
Repatriation and the economics of coerced labor
Return to policing
Unheroic returns
Wayward children of the motherland
Return after Stalin
Conclusion: No one is forgotten, no one is forgiven.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Displaced in war and peace -- Workers from the East -- Forced labor empire -- Collaboration and resistance -- Liberated in a foreign land -- Ambiguous return -- Repatriation and the economics of coerced labor -- Return to policing -- Unheroic returns -- Wayward children of the motherland -- Return after Stalin -- Conclusion: No one is forgotten, no one is forgiven.
