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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThough Return to the Motherland tells the stories of ordinary people trapped in circumstances not of their own making, one of its central arguments is that many displaced persons exercised considerable agency under fluid circumstances.
* Choice Connect *
Return to the Motherland is a fine piece of work, innovative, deeply researched and convincingly argued, that deserves a wide readership and discussion.
* The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Displaced in War and Peace
1. Workers from the East: Deportation and Conditions of Labor among Eastern Workers
2. Forced Labor Empire: Community, Transnational Contact, and Sex
3. Collaboration and Resistance: Wartime Agency and Its Limits in Wustrau and Leipzig
4. Liberated in a Foreign Land: Wild-Resovietization and the Choice to Return in Allied-Occupied Europe, 1945
5. Ambiguous Homecoming: Social Tensions in Repatriation to the USSR
6. Repatriation and the Economics of Coerced Labor: Between Punishment and Pragmatism
7. A Return to Policing: Collaborators, Spies, and the Cold War under Late Stalinism
8. Unheroic Returns: Returnee-Resisters, Historians, and Police
9. Wayward Children of the Motherland: The Soviet Fight for Nonreturners in Western-Occupied Europe
10. Return after Stalin: The Return to the Motherland Campaign in the 1950s
Conclusion: No One Is Forgotten, No One Is Forgiven
