The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective

This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of Soviet social and political history, World War I...

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Main Author: Ganson, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2009, 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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