Hunger and war : food provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II /

"Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food, and in feeding the Red...

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Altri autori: Goldman, Wendy Z. (Redattore), Filtzer, Donald A. (Redattore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Bloomington : Indiana University Press 2015.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzkwj
Sommario:
  • List of terms and abbreviations
  • Introduction: The politics of food and war / Donald Filtzer and Wendy Z. Goldman
  • Not by bread alone : food, workers, and the state / Wendy Z. Goldman
  • The state's pot and the soldier's spoon : rations (paek) in the Red Army / Brandon Schechter
  • Queues, canteens, and the politics of location in diaries of the Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1942 / Alexis Peri
  • Nutritional dystrophy : the science and semantics of starvation in World War II / Rebecca Manley
  • Starvation mortality in Soviet home-front industrial regions during World War II / Donald Filtzer.