Little Soldiers

How Soviet Children Went to War, 1941-1945

Автор: Olga Kucherenko

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Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those bel...

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Автор

Olga Kucherenko

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2011

страници

282

EAN

9780199585557

ISBN

0199585555

Enbook ID

04533558

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

580

Размери

163 x 240 x 22

Пълно описание

Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers. Thousands of those below the enlistment age served with regular and paramilitary formations, even though they were not formally mobilised or allowed at the front. For several decades after the war, these youngsters played an important part in Soviet remembrance culture, though their true experiences were obscured by the myth of the Great Patriotic War. Situated at the crossroads of social, cultural, and military history, Little Soldiers is the first to tell the story of the Soviet Union's child soldiers in a critical and systematic fashion. Focusing on the mechanisms and psychological consequences of propaganda on Soviet children, as well as their combat deployment, Kucherenko adopts a three-tier approach to writing the history of childhood: 'from above', 'from below', and 'from within'. A wide variety of new sources provide insight into young soldiers' combat motivations and the roles they played in the field, as well as their routine experiences and relationship with older comrades. Far from being victims, Soviet child soldiers emerge as independent social actors capable of making choices about their behaviour . Little Soldiers interconnects with matters of increasing importance: the role of propaganda in military conflicts, the totalization of warfare, child-soldiering, and social reflexivity.

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