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Fortress Dark and Stern tells the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II as Soviet workers rapidly evacuated industry, food, and people thousands of miles to the east, resulting in massive suffering and sacrifice, and their key role in supplying the front and making global victory over fascism possible.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
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- Introduction: Total War
- Ch. 1 Panic, Scorched Earth, and Evacuation
- Ch. 2 Rolling East and Resettlement
- Ch. 3 The Staff of Life: Feeding the People
- Ch. 4 Illicit Provisioning: Inequality, Leveling, and Black Markets
- Ch. 5 "All for the Front": Free Labor, Prisoners, and Deportees
- Ch. 6 Millions in Motion: The Labor System in Crisis
- Ch. 7 Runaways: Labor Desertion and State Coercion
- Ch. 8 The Public's Health
- Ch. 9 "Our Cause is Just": Loyalty, Propaganda, and Popular Moods
- Conclusion. 'Brick Dust and Ashes': Liberation and Reconstruction
- Notes
- Index
Info autore
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.
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Fortress Dark and Stern tells the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II as Soviet workers rapidly evacuated industry, food, and people thousands of miles to the east, resulting in massive suffering and sacrifice, and their key role in supplying the front and making global victory over fascism possible.
