Fortress Dark and Stern

The Soviet Home Front during World War II

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvWendy Z. Goldman,Donald Filtzer,Carnegie Mellon University) Goldman, Wendy Z. (Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History,University of East London) Filtzer, Donald (Professor of Russian History Emeritus, Professor of Russian History Emeritus,Wendy Z Goldman

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The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism.After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. The country's survival hung in the balance.In Fortress Dark and Stern, Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer tell the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II. Against the backdrop of the Red Army's early retreats and hard-fought advances after Stalingrad, they present the impact of total war behind the front lines in a chronicle of spirited defense efforts, draconian state directives, teeming black markets, official corruption, and selfless heroism. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east. After long and dangerous journeys in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of its power, imposing military discipline and sending millions of people to work thousands of miles from home, ordinary people withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to supply the front and make the Allied victory possible This book examines the dark and painful war years from a new perspective, telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees.Based on a vast trove of new archival materials, Fortress Dark and Stern reveals a history of suffering, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph largely unknown to Western readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-28
Mått236 x 160 x 40 mm
Vikt862 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor528
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190618414
UtmärkelserWinner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Non-American Military History

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Wendy Z. Goldman is the Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of numerous books, including Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia and Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936. Donald Filtzer is Professor of Russian History Emeritus at the University of East London. His books include Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System After World War Two and The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953.

AcknowledgmentsOxford University Press Spring/Summer 2021 Trade CatalogIntroduction: Total WarCh. 1 Panic, Scorched Earth, and EvacuationCh. 2 Rolling East and ResettlementCh. 3 The Staff of Life: Feeding the PeopleCh. 4 Illicit Provisioning: Inequality, Leveling, and Black MarketsCh. 5 "All for the Front": Free Labor, Prisoners, and DeporteesCh. 6 Millions in Motion: The Labor System in CrisisCh. 7 Runaways: Labor Desertion and State CoercionCh. 8 The Public's HealthCh. 9 "Our Cause is Just": Loyalty, Propaganda, and Popular MoodsConclusion. 'Brick Dust and Ashes': Liberation and ReconstructionNotesIndex

Two well-established authors...have combined efforts to create a truly masterful narrative of the gigantic task of mobilizing the home front for a war of unprecedented scale. The story that they tell is as dynamic as the unstable fronts of the war and yields numerous surprises....The wealth of archival sources they have brought to bear, command of the secondary literature, and strongly mounted argument combine to create a book that not only provides a concise account of a major historical event but also gives us a new and convincing interpretation....Most impressively, throughout the book Goldman and Filtzer do an exemplary job of toggling between the grand scale of events and what they meant to individual people....Their narrative is gripping....We now have an authoritative, multifaceted account of the largest labor mobilization in human history.