{"product_id":"9781350507746","title":"Soviet Internment Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRussian Shorts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSoviet Internment\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMemory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaria Cristina Galmarini | Stephen M. Norris | Polly Jones\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHIS032020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e It reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto Montini, who was captured by the Soviet Army in 1942, interned in a prisoners' hospital in Mordovia, and then repatriated to Italy in 1945.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an analysis of Umberto's copious life-writings, \u003ci\u003eSoviet Internment \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the testimony of a surviving WWII prisoner, whose memories were haunted by the fury of war and whose body carried deep physical and emotional traces but who nonetheless felt a nostalgic attachment to his place of internment. The book brings theoretical questions about memory, trauma, and European people's political trajectories into sustained contact with an individual's specific experience, organically prompting a reconsideration of key 20th-century events in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaria Cristina Galmarini\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmbassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e (2024) and \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 September 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350507746\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e152\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62308132094092,"sku":"9781350507746","price":20.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_a4c45674-73e4-436d-89c2-fdc2ad12fa36.jpg?v=1791347094","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350507746","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}