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Crimea in War and Transformation (Hardcover)
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Crimea in War and Transformation (Hardcover)
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Crimea in War and Transformation is the first book to examine the
terrible toll of violence on Crimean civilians and landscapes from
mobilization through reconstruction. When war landed on Crimea's
coast in September 1854, multiple armies instantly doubled the
peninsula's population. Engineering brigades mowed down forests to
build barracks. Ravenous men fell upon orchards like locusts and
slaughtered Crimean livestock. Within a month, war had plunged the
peninsula into a subsistence crisis. Soldiers and civilians starved
as they waited for food to travel from the mainland by oxcart at a
rate of 1/2 mile per hour. Every army conscripted Tatars as
laborers, and fired upon civilian homes. Several cities and
villages-Sevastopol, Kerch, Balaklava, Genichesk among them-burned
to the ground. At the height of violence, hysterical officers
accused Tatars of betrayal and deported large segments of the local
population. Peace did not bring relief to Crimea's homeless and
hungry. Removal of dead bodies and human waste took months.
Epidemics swept away young children and the elderly. Russian
officials estimated the devastation wrought by Crimean War exceeded
that of Napoleon's invasion. Recovery packages failed human need,
and by 1859, the trickle of Tatar out-migration that had begun
during the war turned into a flood. Nearly 200,000 Tatars left
Crimea by 1864, adding a demographic crisis to the tally of war's
destruction. Drawing from a wide body of published and unpublished
material, including untapped archives, testimonies, and secret
police files from Russia, Ukraine and Crimea, Mara Kozelsky details
in readable and vivid prose the toll of war on the Crimean people,
and the Russian Empire as a whole, from mobilization through failed
efforts at reconstruction.
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