Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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 West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691230021
• ISBN13: 9780691230023
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages