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The Bread of Affliction - The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II (Hardcover, New)
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The Bread of Affliction - The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
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This book tells how the Soviet Union fed itself after the invasion
by the Germans during World War II. The author argues that central
planning became much less important in feeding the population, and
civilians were thereby forced to become considerably more self
reliant in feeding themselves. A rationing system was instituted
soon after the war began, but quickly became irrelevant because of
the chronic food shortages. The breakdown in central supplies of
food was accompanied by the diminished importance of the ruble,
which in many places was replaced by bread and clothing as the
medium of exchange. Although the Soviet army was given high
precedence over civilians, the author also shows that the
population living under German occupation was much worse off than
were Soviet civilians living in the rear. In addition to extensive
use of American and German archives from the war period, the author
interviewed more than thirty Soviet emigre s who survived the war.
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