Format:
xvii, [2] 387 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781350372283
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9781350372290
Content:
"Central Asia has long been the geographical and strategic crossroads of East and West, with inhabitants colonized by Cossacks and traders from the Russian Empire in the 19th century. This book examines how Central Asia, as part of the Soviet Union, experienced population displacements on an even greater scale during the Second World War. Vicky Davis reflects on how troops were sent westwards into action, only for waves of civilians to travel eastwards into the region: evacuees, refugees and even deportees sent into exile from their homelands in other parts of the vast Soviet Union. Central Asia in World War Two is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the Second World War. Based on meticulous archival research, it considers the interactions of the individual citizen and the Soviet state, weaving together the experiences of over three hundred ordinary men and women in Central Asia as they coped with their new roles on the front line or in the rear. Suffering incredible economic and physical hardship, racism and religious oppression, these mainly Muslim citizens were subjected to a forced process of Sovietization under the influence of Stalin’s ubiquitous propaganda machine. Davis shows how, while conscripts were all too often slaughtered or scapegoated in their regiments, the women and children left at home slaved in factories and communal farms to fuel the machinery of a war taking place thousands of kilometres away. She convincingly argues that the impact of forced assimilation, cultural indoctrination, anti-Semitism and re-education on the region were as great as the daily fight for survival in wartime, while the legacy of the period is almost as complex, with struggles over the ownership and revision of history continuing even today."
Note:
Enthält ein Bibliograpie- und Indexverzeichnis
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-350-37230-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-350-37231-3
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, online ISBN 978-1-350-37232-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
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Mittelasien
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Russlandfeldzug
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Muslim
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Soldat
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Heimatfront
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Historische Darstellung
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