Hunger and War - Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Z. Goldman is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin's Russia ; Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression ; Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry 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 at the University of East London, United Kingdom. He is author of The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health, Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943-1953. Klappentext The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Terms and Abbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Food and War / Donald Filtzer and Wendy Z. Goldman 1. Not by Bread Alone: Food, Workers, and the State / Wendy Z. Goldman 2. The State's Pot and Soldier's Spoon: Rations ( Paëk ) in the Red Army / Brandon Schechter 3. Queues, Canteens, and the Politics of Location in Diaries of the Leningrad Blockade, 1941-42 / Alexis Peri 4. Nutritional Dystrophy: The Science and Semantics of Starvation in World War II / Rebecca Manley 5. Starvation Mortality in Soviet Home-Front Industrial Regions During World War II / Donald Filtzer Bibliography Contributors Index

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• Authors: Wendy Z. (EDT)/ Filtzer Goldman, Wendy Z. Filtzer Goldman
• Assisted by: Edited by Wendy Z Goldman and Donald Fil (Editor), Donald Filtzer (Editor), Donald A Filtzer (Editor), Donald A. Filtzer (Editor), Wendy Goldman (Editor), Wendy Z Goldman (Editor), Wendy Z. Goldman (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780253017086
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01708-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous