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Soviet Veterans of the Second World War A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991

Edele Mark
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199237562
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
675 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Edele Mark

Biografisk notat

Mark Edele studied Russian history at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, and Chicago, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches continental European and Russian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Soviet Veterans of the Second World War A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991

Edele Mark
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Edele's book is an important contribution to the history of the later Soviet Union, in particular the immediate postwar years. It deepens our understanding of how Soviet state and society interacted and provides critical insights into the development of the veterans' movement.

H-Soz-u-Kult

Edele's account is destined to help reshape understanding of WWII and the former Soviet Union. Highly recommended.

CHOICE

Authoritative and engaging

Ian D. Thatcher, History

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A truly superb and highly-recommended account of Soviet veterans of World War II.

Jeffrey W. Jones, Slavic Review

An original and well researched account...thoroughly written...excellent monograph.

Judith Beyer, Europe-Asia Studies

A highly original, extremely well researched, and wonderfully articulated account

Journal of Modern History

A pioneering study... an important contribution to the history of the war, Soviet post-war society, and the way in which social movements functioned in a totalitarian society.

Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

A book of great conceptual sharpness by a gifted scholar

Slavonic and East European Review

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory. Mark Edele traces the veterans' story from the early post-war years through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. He describes in detail the problems they encountered during demobilization, the dysfunctional bureaucracy they had to deal with once back, and the way their reintegration into civilian life worked in practice in one of the most devastated countries of Europe. He pays particular attention to groups with specific problems such as the disabled, former prisoners of war, women soldiers, and youth. The study analyses the old soldiers' long struggle for recognition and the eventual emergence of an organized movement in the years after Stalin's death. The Soviet state at first refused to recognize veterans as a group worthy of special privileges or as an organization. They were not a group conceived of in Marxist-Leninist theory, there was suspicion about their political loyalty, and the leadership worried about the costs of affording a special status to such a large population group. These preconceptions were overcome only after a long, hard struggle by a popular movement that slowly emerged within the strict confines of the authoritarian Soviet regime.
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The first book-length study of Soviet veterans of the Second World War and their movement. Based on extensive research in Soviet archives and libraries, it analyses the fate of the millions who returned from the war with Germany.
Les mer
PART I: REINTEGRATION; PART II: VICTORS AND VICTIMS; PART III: MOVEMENT
The first full study of the fate of the millions of Soviet veterans of World War II Covers the period from the immediate post-war years under Stalin right through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 Draws on a wealth of archival documents as well as the recollections of veterans and evidence from contemporary movies, periodicals, and literature
Les mer
Mark Edele studied Russian history at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, and Chicago, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches continental European and Russian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Les mer
The first full study of the fate of the millions of Soviet veterans of World War II Covers the period from the immediate post-war years under Stalin right through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 Draws on a wealth of archival documents as well as the recollections of veterans and evidence from contemporary movies, periodicals, and literature
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Edele's book is an important contribution to the history of the later Soviet Union, in particular the immediate postwar years. It deepens our understanding of how Soviet state and society interacted and provides critical insights into the development of the veterans' movement.

H-Soz-u-Kult

Edele's account is destined to help reshape understanding of WWII and the former Soviet Union. Highly recommended.

CHOICE

Authoritative and engaging

Ian D. Thatcher, History

Se alle

A truly superb and highly-recommended account of Soviet veterans of World War II.

Jeffrey W. Jones, Slavic Review

An original and well researched account...thoroughly written...excellent monograph.

Judith Beyer, Europe-Asia Studies

A highly original, extremely well researched, and wonderfully articulated account

Journal of Modern History

A pioneering study... an important contribution to the history of the war, Soviet post-war society, and the way in which social movements functioned in a totalitarian society.

Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

A book of great conceptual sharpness by a gifted scholar

Slavonic and East European Review

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory. Mark Edele traces the veterans' story from the early post-war years through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. He describes in detail the problems they encountered during demobilization, the dysfunctional bureaucracy they had to deal with once back, and the way their reintegration into civilian life worked in practice in one of the most devastated countries of Europe. He pays particular attention to groups with specific problems such as the disabled, former prisoners of war, women soldiers, and youth. The study analyses the old soldiers' long struggle for recognition and the eventual emergence of an organized movement in the years after Stalin's death. The Soviet state at first refused to recognize veterans as a group worthy of special privileges or as an organization. They were not a group conceived of in Marxist-Leninist theory, there was suspicion about their political loyalty, and the leadership worried about the costs of affording a special status to such a large population group. These preconceptions were overcome only after a long, hard struggle by a popular movement that slowly emerged within the strict confines of the authoritarian Soviet regime.
Les mer
The first book-length study of Soviet veterans of the Second World War and their movement. Based on extensive research in Soviet archives and libraries, it analyses the fate of the millions who returned from the war with Germany.
Les mer
PART I: REINTEGRATION; PART II: VICTORS AND VICTIMS; PART III: MOVEMENT
The first full study of the fate of the millions of Soviet veterans of World War II Covers the period from the immediate post-war years under Stalin right through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 Draws on a wealth of archival documents as well as the recollections of veterans and evidence from contemporary movies, periodicals, and literature
Les mer
Mark Edele studied Russian history at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, and Chicago, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches continental European and Russian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Les mer
The first full study of the fate of the millions of Soviet veterans of World War II Covers the period from the immediate post-war years under Stalin right through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 Draws on a wealth of archival documents as well as the recollections of veterans and evidence from contemporary movies, periodicals, and literature
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199237562
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
675 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Edele Mark

Biografisk notat

Mark Edele studied Russian history at the Universities of Erlangen, Tübingen, and Chicago, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches continental European and Russian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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