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- Title
The Great Patriotic War and Soviet Society.
- Authors
BUDNITSKII, OLEG
- Abstract
The article discusses the responses of ethnic Russians to the Second World War, with a particular focus on the Russian peasantry. The author examines peasants' attitudes towards the Soviet Union and the meaning of patriotism. It is suggested that peasants were motivated to support the war by the organizational and disciplinary influence of the army and the state, including repression, and by the threat of German occupation and Nazi atrocities. Antisemitism and ideology are also discussed.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; WORLD War II; RUSSIANS; PEASANTS; PATRIOTISM; SOCIAL conditions in the Soviet Union, 1917-1945; POLITICAL persecution; ATTITUDE (Psychology); POLITICAL persecution -- History
- Publication
Kritika: Explorations in Russian & Eurasian History, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 4, p767
- ISSN
1531-023X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/kri.2014.0061