Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin
Refugee Scientists in the USSR
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2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4365-5 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4365-5 (ISBN)
Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin examines the lives of the scientists and scholars who sought refuge in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler’s Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these displaced academics from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
The book follows the lives of thirty-six scholars through some of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. It reveals that not only did they endure the chaos that engulfed central Europe in the decades before Hitler came to power, but they were also caught up in two of the greatest mass murders in history. David Zimmerman examines how those fleeing Hitler in their quests for safe harbour faced hardship and grave danger, including arrest, torture, and execution by the Soviet state. Drawing on German, Russian, and English sources, Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin illustrates the complex paths taken by refugee scholars in flight.
David Zimmerman is a professor of military history at the University of Victoria.
List of Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Scholars and Scientists
2. German Scientists in the Soviet Union before Hitler
3. Scientists and Communists
4. Scientists in Flight to the Soviet Union
5. Living in Stalin’s Soviet Union
6. Refugee Scholarship in the Soviet Union
7. The Great Terror
8. Into Stalin’s Frying Pan
9. From Stalin’s Frying Pan into Hitler’s Fire
10. From the Great Terror to the Shoah
11. Survival and Triumph
12. The Ensnared in the Cold War
13. The Long Ordeal
Conclusion: The Ensnared and History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 17 b&w illustrations and 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 670 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4365-4 / 1487543654 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4365-5 / 9781487543655 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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