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Fortress Dark and Stern - The Soviet Home Front during World War II (Hardcover)
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Fortress Dark and Stern - The Soviet Home Front during World War II (Hardcover)
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The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World
War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and
played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. 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. After long and dangerous journeys
in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the
reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of
its power, imposing military discipline and sending millions of
people to work thousands of miles from home, ordinary people
withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to
supply the front and make the Allied victory possible This book
examines the dark and painful war years from a new perspective,
telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women
workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees. Based on a
vast trove of new archival materials, Fortress Dark and Stern
reveals a history of suffering, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph
largely unknown to Western readers.
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