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Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War

Natalie Belsky
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Broad is my Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
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Central Asian social history
citizenship and belonging research
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Germans in Kazakhstan
Great Patriotic War
interethnic relations Soviet Union
Internal Evacuation
Iosif Stalin
Jewish Holocaust survivors USSR
Nazi invasion
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet civilian evacuation experiences
Soviet Evacuation
Soviet population displacement
To the Tashkent Station
wartime migration studies

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  • ISBN 9781032332161
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2025
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.

The book considers the impact of this episode of massive population displacement across Eurasia on individuals, communities, and society more broadly. It explores how the challenges associated with wartime displacement gave rise to tensions between evacuees and local residents. These frictions, in turn, forced individuals to interrogate the meaning, terms, and limitations of citizenship and belonging in the Soviet Union. Evacuation thus played a critical role in the changing relationship between citizens and the Soviet state in the war and postwar periods. Furthermore, this study pays particular attention to the plight of Soviet Jewish evacuees, who constitute the largest contingent of Holocaust survivors in Europe, and the rise of anti-Semitism on the Soviet home front during the war.

This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Second World War, migration and displacement, the Holocaust, Soviet Jewish history, and the Soviet experience more broadly.
About Natalie Belsky

Natalie Belsky is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Political Science and International Studies at University of Minnesota Duluth.

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