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

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Label

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

Title remainder

food provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II

Statement of responsibility

edited by Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer

Contributor

• Filtzer, Donald A
• Goldman, Wendy Z

Subject

• Food supply -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
• Food supply -- Soviet Union -- History
• Hunger -- Soviet Union -- History
• Nutrition policy -- Soviet Union -- History
• Rationing -- Soviet Union -- History
• Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945
• Starvation -- Soviet Union -- History
• War and society -- Soviet Union -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply -- Soviet Union
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union

Language

eng

Summary

"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 army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production, and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography