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Author Dale, Robert, 1980-

Title Demobilized veterans in late Stalinist Leningrad : soldiers to civilians / Robert Dale
Published London : Bloomsbury, 2015

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Contents The troops come home -- "Homes for heroes" : veterans and the postwar housing crisis -- "As in battle, as in labour" : the remobilization of demobilized veterans -- Wounds that would not heal : disability, health and trauma -- Disorderly demobilization : veterans and postwar crime -- Demobilizing the mind : veterans, politics and memory
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
In Bloomsbury Cultural History. Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ -- Demobilization -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡ fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Soviet Union
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
Veterans -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
Social & cultural history.
European history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Armed Forces -- Demobilization
Social aspects
Social conditions
Veterans
SUBJECT Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History, Military -- 20th century
Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
Subject Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
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