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Soviet Home Front: 1941-1945 - Hardcover

John Barber; Mark Harrison

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Synopsis

Nowhere else was World War II as bloody and destructive as it was in Eastern Europe, and of all nations it was the Soviet Union that paid the highest price for victory. The scale of death and destruction is hard to comprehend even today. Its consequences were to shape Soviet politics, and the shape of the postwar world, right through to our own time. How Soviet society responded to the threat, and survived the reality, of this most terrible of wars is the subject of this powerful and impressive survey.

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'An unusual and valuable contribution xxx; they have made the unbelievable resistance and ultimate victory of the Soviet people in World War II understandable to people who never even remotely experienced such suffering and such sacrifices.' Academic Library Book Review

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