Soviet internment : memory, nostalgia and the POW experience / Maria Cristina Galmarini.
| Author/creator | Galmarini, Maria Cristina author. |
| Other author | Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Memory, nostalgia and the POW experience |
| Portion of title | Memory, nostalgia and the prisoner of war experience |
| Series | Russian shorts Russian shorts. ^A1452190 |
| Contents | Prologue -- 1. A Genealogy of Memory and Narration -- 2. Fascist Youth and the Call to Arms -- 3. The 'Russian Front' -- 4. Internment at Zubova Poliana -- 5. The Unhealing Wounds of War -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "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." -- Back cover |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Galmarini, Maria Cristina. Soviet internment London :Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350507760 |
| ISBN | 9781350507746 |
| ISBN | 1350507733 |
| ISBN | 9781350507739 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1350507741 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781350507753 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 135050775X (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781350507760 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | 1350507768 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | 9781350507777 (online) |
| ISBN | 1350507776 (online) |
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