Smolensk Under the Nazis: Everyday Life in Occupied Russia

by Laurie R. Cohen

Drawing on oral-history interviews and other sources, this work provides fascinating accounts of how Soviets, Jews, and Roma fared in the Russian city of Smolensk under the 26-month Nazi occupation.

The 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa") significantly altered the lives of the civilians in occupied Russian territories, yet these individuals' stories are overlooked by most scholarly treatments ofthe attack and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464696
• ISBN13: 9781580464697
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"