{"product_id":"9780691230023","title":"Lost Souls","description":"Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780691230023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Nov 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria. These \u0026amp;#x27;displaced persons,\u0026amp;#x27; or DPs  Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939  refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands. Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In \u003ci\u003eLost Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican enthusiasm for funding the refugee organizations taking care of DPs quickly waned after the war. It was only after DPs were redefined  from \u0026amp;#x27;victims of war and Nazism\u0026amp;#x27; to \u0026amp;#x27;victims of Communism\u0026amp;#x27;  in 1947 that a solution was found: the United States would pay for the mass resettlement of DPs in America, Australia, and other countries outside Europe. The Soviet Union protested this \u0026amp;#x27;theft\u0026amp;#x27; of its citizens. But it was a coup for the United States. The choice of DPs to live a free life in the West, and the West's welcome of them, became an important theme in America's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling story of the early Cold War, \u003ci\u003eLost Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is also a rare chronicle of a refugee crisis that was solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46803850428574,"sku":"ADS-9780691230023","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780691230023.jpg?v=1778206363","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780691230023","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}