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Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad - Soldiers to Civilians (Hardcover)
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Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad - Soldiers to Civilians (Hardcover)
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This book investigates the demobilization and post-war readjustment
of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and its environs after the Great
Patriotic War. Over 300,000 soldiers were stood down in this
war-ravaged region between July 1945 and 1948. They found the
transition to civilian life more challenging than many could ever
have imagined. For civilian Leningraders, reintegrating the rapid
influx of former soldiers represented an enormous political,
economic, social and cultural challenge. In this book, Robert Dale
reveals how these former soldiers became civilians in a society
devastated and traumatized by total warfare. Dale discusses how,
and how successfully, veterans became ordinary citizens. Based on
extensive original research in local and national archives, oral
history interviews and the examination of various newspaper
collections, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad peels
back the myths woven around demobilization, to reveal a darker
history repressed by society and concealed from historiography.
While propaganda celebrated this disarmament as a smooth process
which reunited veterans with their families, reintegrated them into
the workforce and facilitated upward social mobility, the reality
was rarely straightforward. Many veterans were caught up in the
scramble for work, housing, healthcare and state hand-outs. Others
drifted to the social margins, criminality or became the victims of
post-war political repression. Demobilized Veterans in Late
Stalinist Leningrad tells the story of both the failure of local
representatives to support returning Soviet soldiers, and the
remarkable resilience and creativity of veterans in solving the
problems created by their return to society. It is a vital study
for all scholars and students of post-war Soviet history and the
impact of war in the modern era.
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