Of Loss and Loot
Stalin-Era Culture, Foreign Aid, and Trophy Goods in the Soviet Union during the 1940s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19089428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalie Moine (0009-0006-6626-7359, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Pages | 219-258 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales (English edition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2268-3763 • E-ISSN: 2398-5682 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2398568200000224 |
| OpenAlex | W2586889392 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article focuses on the influx and circulation of foreign objects in the Soviet Union during the 1940s in order to investigate the specific role of these objects during World War II. It reveals how the distribution of humanitarian aid intersected with both the (non)recognition of the genocide of Soviet Jews during the Nazi occupation, and with Stalinist social hierarchies. It explains why erasing the origins and precise circumstances through which these objects entered Soviet homes could in turn be used to hide the abuses that the Red Army perpetrated against their defeated enemies. Finally, it revises the image of a Soviet society that discovered luxury and Western modernity for the first time during the war by reconsidering the place and the trajectories of these objects in Stalinist material culture of the interwar period
Economic history · Economics · Genocide · Interwar period · Modernity · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Trophy · World War II · European history and politics · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |