Children and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War
by
Julie K. deGraffenried
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
During the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War, from 1941 to 1945, as many as 24 million of its citizens died. 14 million were children ages fourteen or younger. And for those who survived, the suffering was far from over. The prewar Stalinist vision of a "happy childhood" nurtured by a paternal,...