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Author Bernstein, Seth, author.

Title Return to the motherland : displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War / Seth Bernstein
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Battlegrounds: Cornell studies in military history
Contents Introduction: Displaced in War and Peace -- Workers from the East -- Forced Labor Empire -- Collaboration and Resistance -- Liberated in a Foreign Land -- Ambiguous Return -- Repatriation and the Economics of Coerced Labor -- Return to Policing -- Unheroic Returns -- Wayward Children of the Motherland -- Return after Stalin -- Conclusion: No One Is Forgotten, No One Is Forgiven
Summary "At the end of World War II, millions of people arrived in the Soviet Union from wartime displacement. This book follows the displaced from the Third Reich back to the Soviet Union, revealing how the tumult of war created new identities, prospects, and dangers for migrants"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2023)
Subject Return migrants -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Return migration -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
World War, 1939-1945 -- Forced repatriation.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Refoulement
Return migration -- Social aspects
Social aspects
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022013958
ISBN 1501767410
9781501767401
1501767402
9781501767418