Title Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin : refugee scientists in the USSR / David Zimmerman

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Scholars and Scientists -- 2 German Scientists in the Soviet Union before Hitler -- 3 Scientists and Communists -- 4 Scientists in Flight to the Soviet Union -- 5 Living in Stalin's Soviet Union -- 6 Refugee Scholarship in the Soviet Union -- 7 The Great Terror -- 8 Into Stalin's Frying Pan -- 9 From Stalin's Frying Pan into Hitler's Fire -- 10 From the Great Terror to the Shoah -- 11 Survival and Triumph -- 12 The Ensnared in the Cold War 13 The Long Ordeal -- Conclusion: The Ensnared and History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler's Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin's Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 27, 2023) Subject Scientists -- Soviet Union -- Biography Scientists -- Germany -- Biography Scientists -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century Scientists -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Refugees -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century Forced migration -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century Refugees -- Soviet Union -- Biography Forced migration -- Germany -- History -- 20th century SCIENCE / History Forced migration. Refugees. Scientists. Germany. Soviet Union. Genre/Form Biographies. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 1487543662 9781487543679 1487543670 9781487543662

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