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Fortress dark and stern : the soviet home front during world war ii / Wendy Z. Goldman, Donald Filtzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldman, Wendy Z., author.
- Filtzer, Donald A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--History--1939-1945.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (528 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Panic, Scorched Earth, and Evacuation
- Rolling East and Resettlement
- The Staff of Life: Feeding the People
- Illicit Provisioning: Inequality, Leveling, and Black Markets
- "All for the Front": Free Labor, Prisoners, and Deportees
- The Labor System in Crisis: The Limits of Mobilization
- Coercion Constrained: The Wartime Labor Laws
- The Public's Health
- "Our Cause is Just": Loyalty, Propaganda, and Popular Moods
- "Brick Dust and Ashes": Liberation and Reconstruction,
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061843-4
- 0-19-009267-X
- 0-19-061842-6
- OCLC:
- 1224043016
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