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  title info:
    title: Lost souls
    sub title: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War
  name:
    name part: Fitzpatrick, Sheila
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 341 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 their 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 western 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.
  table of contents: UNRRA and its mandate -- Repatriation to the Soviet Union and Allied conflict -- Organization of DP life -- DP occupations -- Other DP activities and entertainments -- IRO and its mandate -- Resettlement as policy -- DPs weigh the options -- Unfinished business.
  note: Sheila Fitzpatrick.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: International Refugee Organization.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Refugees
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Forced repatriation
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    topic: Communism and international relations
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Russia / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
  classification: D809.S65 F58 2024
  classification: 940.53/1450947
  identifier: 9780691230023
  identifier: 0691230021
  identifier: 9780691230030
  identifier: 2024011739
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240605
    record change date: 20260512191507.2
    record identifier: in00005530486