The Kings and the Pawns
Leonid Rein
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Description for The Kings and the Pawns
Hardcover. For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi-occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Series: War and Genocide. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 153 x 223 x 35. Weight in Grams: 780.
For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. This movement, a reaction to the brutal occupation policies, was very strong indeed. Still, as the author shows, there existed in Byelorussia a whole web of local institutions and organizations which, some willingly, others with reservations, participated in the implementation of various aspects of occupation policies. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations have played an important role in ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
Series
War and Genocide
Number of Pages
458
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845457761
SKU
V9781845457761
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99-15
About Leonid Rein
Leonid Rein was born in Byelorussia (then part of the USSR) and graduated from Haifa University. While studying for his Ph.D. he received the Wolf Foundation’s student grant of excellence and his dissertation was awarded a prize by the Norbert and Lisa Schechter Foundation. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem (Israel), ... Read more
Reviews for The Kings and the Pawns
“Rein provides an enormous quantity of detail making the book a slow read and a specialist’s study. It is, however, extremely valuable for an understanding of a less known Eastern European area of German occupation and has much to tell us about ethnic relations in the former Soviet Union and the Holocaust as well.” · European History Quarterly ... Read more