Soviet Refugees

Author : Karl D. Qualls
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487518293
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Niños written by Karl D. Qualls and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly three thousand child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs uncovers a little-known story that describes the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and reveals the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Classroom education taught patriotism for the two homelands and the importance of emulating Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. Extra-curricular clubs and activities reinforced classroom experiences and helped discipline the mind, body, and behaviours. Adult mentors, like the heroes studied in the classroom, provided models to emulate and became the tangible expression of the ideal Spaniard and Soviet. The Basque and Spanish children thus were transformed into hybrid Hispano-Soviets fully engaged with their native language, culture, and traditions while also imbued with Russian language and culture and Soviet ideals of hard work, comradery, internationalism, and sacrifice for ideals and others. Throughout their fourteen-year existence and even during the horrific relocation to the Soviet interior during the Second World War, the twenty-two Soviet boarding schools designed specifically for the Spanish refugee children – and better provisioned than those for Soviet children – transformed displaced niños into Red Army heroes, award-winning Soviet athletes and artists, successful educators and workers, and in some cases valuable resources helping to rebuild Cuba after the revolution. Stalin’s Niños also sheds new light on the education of non-Russian Soviet and international students and the process of constructing a supranational Soviet identity.

Author : Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806714
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Immigrant Whiteness written by Claudia Sadowski-Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: presumed white: race, gender, and modes of migration in the post-Soviet diaspora -- The post-Soviet diaspora on transnational reality TV -- Highly skilled and marriage migrants in Arizona -- Segmented assimilation and return migration -- The desire for adoptive invisibility -- Fictions of irregular post-Soviet migration -- The post-Soviet diaspora in comparative perspective -- Conclusion: immigrant whiteness today

Author : Albert Kaganovich
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299334503
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exodus and Its Aftermath written by Albert Kaganovich and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. Citizens in the Central Asian territories were at best indifferent—and at worst openly hostile—toward these migrants. Unpopular policies dictated that residents house refugees and share their limited food and essentials with these unwelcome strangers. When the local population began targeting the newcomers, Soviet authorities saw the antisemitic violence as discontentment with the political system itself and came down hard against it. Local authorities, however, were less concerned with the discrimination, focusing instead on absorbing large numbers of displaced people while also managing regional resentment during the most difficult years of the war. Despite the lack of harmonious integration, party officials spread the myth that they had successfully assimilated over ten million evacuees. Albert Kaganovitch reconstructs the conditions that gave rise to this upsurge in antisemitic sentiment and provides new statistical data on the number of Jewish refugees who lived in the Urals, Siberia, and Middle Volga areas. The book’s insights into the regional distribution and concentration of these émigrés offer a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most intensive Jewish migration in history.

Author : Eliyana R. Adler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425046X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival on the Margins written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in 1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on behalf of new generations.

Author : James E. Hassell
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698179
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars written by James E. Hassell and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand publication. Revolution in 1917 brutally shattered old Russia in all its aspects. Something on the order of a million & a half people consequently fled or were expelled from the territory of the former Russian Empire. This study, undertaken before the advent of glasnost & perestroika, describes the experiences of Russians who arrived in the U.S. between the two world wars. But the spiritual center of the entire Russian diaspora was France, particularly Paris, so France must be part of the story. Many of the refugees who ultimately settled in the U.S. passed through France. Many had connections in France; therefore, some knowledge of the French situation is crucial for an understanding of the emigres in this country & indeed throughout the world.

Author : Hilary Pilkington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134726570
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration, Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia written by Hilary Pilkington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the displacement of 25 million ethnic Russians from the newly independent states after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Pilkington illuminates wider contemporary debates about identity and migration.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Refugees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Refugees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by the General Accounting Office of the United States deals with the implementation of section 599D of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act pertaining to the processing and admittance of Soviet refugee applicants to the US. Section 599D, referred to as the Lautenberg Amendment, requires the Executive branch to establish refugee processing categories for Jews, Evangelical Christians, Ukrainian Catholics and Ukrainian Orthodox Church members and gives members of these categories an enhanced opportunity to qualify for refugee status when being interviewed. This report evaluates the efforts of the Department of State and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to implement the requirements of the Lautenberg Amendment. Background information is provided on the refugee status procedures of the INS for Soviets in Rome and Moscow and changes in US policy as a result of increasing demands. Extensive appendices to the report give additional information on the implementation of the Lautenberg Amendment, including comparisons of cost between refugee processing in Moscow and Rome.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Refugees written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Soviet Refugees written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report updates information on refugee processing in Moscow, covering the period through May 1991, and specifically: evaluates Department of State and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) implementation of section 599D of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1990 and whether the refugee processing procedures in Moscow and Washington DC are effective; evaluates whether the INS adjudication process in Moscow is fairly and consistently applied and whether it conforms with INS implementation guidance; assesses whether the Soviet refugee admissions ceiling will be met for fiscal year 1991; and comments on the status of public interest parole offers being extended to Soviets denied refugee status. The report provides background information of the processing of Soviet refugee applicants in Moscow since 1988 and the changes in the State and Justice Departments Soviet refugee programme since that time. Comments are made on the implementation of section 599D and the fact that the INS was not complying with its implementation guidelines. However, it is noted that improvements and changes have been made in the Soviet refugee and adjudication system since last reported in May 1990, and several of the improvements are described. The report also provides information on the cost of operating the Soviet refugee programme and the public interest parole offered for most Soviets denied refugee status.