To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
Rebecca Manley
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Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation of over sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.Rebecca Manley paints a vivid picture of this epic wartime saga: the chaos that erupted in towns large and small as German troops approached, the overcrowded trains that trundled eastward, and the desperate ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447396
SKU
V9780801447396
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About Rebecca Manley
Rebecca Manley is Associate Professor of History and Undergraduate Chair of the Department of History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Reviews for To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
Manley's book is an impressive achievement. Through work in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Tashkent archives, along with the use of memoir and periodical sources, she effectively documents... Soviet society and the Soviet state as revealed in a moment of crisis.... She produces a nuanced understanding of how evacuation simultaneously exposed and healed fissures within and between various strata of the ... Read more