Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee...
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Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War by Fitzpatrick, Sheila

Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

BD$87.75

Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

BD$87.75
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises

When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These "displaced persons," or DPs--Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939--refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In Lost Souls, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs.

American enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined--from "victims of war and Nazism" to "victims of Communism"--in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this "theft" of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West's welcome of them, became an important theme in America's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union.

A compelling story of the early Cold War, Lost Souls is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.14w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9780691230023

About the Author
Sheila Fitzpatrick is the author of many books, including On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Princeton), The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, and The Russian Revolution. She is professor of history at the Institute of Humanities and Social Science at the Australian Catholic University and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.

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