Soviet Internment

Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience

AvMaria Cristina Galmarini,Stephen M. Norris

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War. It reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto Montini, who was captured by the Soviet Army in 1942, interned in a prisoners’ hospital in Mordovia, and then repatriated to Italy in 1945.Through an analysis of Umberto’s copious life-writings, Soviet Internment examines the testimony of a surviving WWII prisoner, whose memories were haunted by the fury of war and whose body carried deep physical and emotional traces but who nonetheless felt a nostalgic attachment to his place of internment. The book brings theoretical questions about memory, trauma, and European people’s political trajectories into sustained contact with an individual’s specific experience, organically prompting a reconsideration of key 20th-century events in the process.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:128 x 198 x 16 mm
Vikt:180 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian Shorts
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350507746

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Maria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. She is the author of Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War (2024) and The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (2016).

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Scholars of captivity in the Soviet Union will greatly appreciate this evidence as to at least one returnee truly internalizing the messages of the Soviet antifascist reeducation system. Scholars interested in trauma and memory studies will also greatly appreciate this work, which does not aim to produce an accurate retelling of Umberto’s experiences, but rather seeks to understand how and why he reflected upon his captivity in an overall positive light despite also including details about the horrid conditions of war and captivity.

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Prologue1. A Genealogy of Memory and Narration2. Fascist Youth and the Call to Arms3. The ‘Russian Front’4. Internment at Zubova Poliana5. The Unhealing Wounds of WarSelect BibliographyIndex

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