From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad: Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity

by Jamie Freeman

Book Overview

This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and annexing the German East Prussian city of K?nigsberg in 1945 and renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the remaining German people, repopulated the city and region with settlers from elsewhere in the Soviet Union, destroyed the key remaining German buildings and began building a model Soviet city,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367621703
• ISBN13: 9780367621704
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"