Hunger and War

Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II
Herausgeber: Goldman, Wendy Z; Filtzer, Donald A

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780253017123
• ISBN-10: 0253017122
• Artikelnr.: 41607752

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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