The People's war : responses to World War II in the Soviet Union / edited by Robert W. Thurston and Bernd Bonwetsch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Living and surviving in occupied Minsk / Uwe Gartenschläger -- Destruction and Resistance : the Jewish shtetl of Slonim, 1941-44 / Hans-Heinrich Nolte -- The popular mood in the unoccupied Soviet Union : continuity and change during the war / Gennadi Bordiugov -- The social and political situation in Leningrad in the first months of the German invasion : the social psychology of the workers / Andrei R. Dzeniskevich -- Survival strategies in Leningrad during the first year of the Soviet-German war / Richard Bidlack -- Muscovites' moods, 22 June 1941 to May 1942 / Mikhail M. Gorinov -- War as a "breathing space" : Soviet intellectuals and the "Great Patriotic War" / Bernd Bonwetsch -- The siege of Leningrad : wartime literature and ideological change / Aileen G. Rambow -- Soviet Russian wartime culture : freedom and control, spontaneity and consciousness / Richard Stites -- Soviet soldiers and officers on the eve of the German invasion : toward a description of social psychology and political attitudes / Mark Von Hagen -- Soviet women as comrades-in-arms : a blind spot in the history of the war / Susanne Conze and Beate Fieseler -- Cauldrons of loyalty and betrayal : Soviet soldiers' behavior, 1941 and 1945 / Robert W. Thurston.