Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad: Soldiers to Civilians

by Robert Dale

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472590775
• ISBN13: 9781472590770
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"