Violence and Occupation
The Red Army in the Balkans and Central Europe, 1944-1945
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 19 January 2026
- ISBN 9781009652445
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 229x152x21 mm
- Weight 682 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 b/w illus. 5 maps 782
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Short description:
This ground-breaking history traces the Red Army's advances across Europe, examining occupation policies and encounters with civilians.
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This groundbreaking history traces the Red Army's advances across central Europe and the Balkans in 1944-1945. It focuses on the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts that occupied Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria. Utilizing material from archives across Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia, alongside diaries, memoirs, and interviews, Vojin Majstorović examines the official policies and troops' behavior in each country and analyzes military violations, from deserting and looting to widespread sexual violence. His findings show that the Red Army was an ill-disciplined force, but that military personnel committed fewer crimes against civilians in 'neutral Bulgaria' and 'friendly' Yugoslavia than in 'enemy' Romania, Hungary, and Austria. To explain the variation in troops' conduct, he stresses the interaction of several continuously evolving factors: Kremlin's policies, the severity of the fighting, the command's policies toward criminals, the official propaganda, and troops' martial masculinity, identity, and views of the local populations.
'This important book offers a fresh and much-needed perspective on the intertwined histories of sexual violence, war crimes, military law and discipline in the Red Army. With its ambitious geographic scope and rich source base-including largely untapped NKVD records-Violence and Occupation will be required reading for historians of the Second World War.' Ruth Lawlor, co-editor of The Greater Second World War
Table of Contents:
Photos; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Front: 1. On the eve of the Balkan offensive; 2. 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts' operations and rampage in Europe; Part II. The Leadership: 3. The kremlin's policies; 4. Propaganda; 5. Disciplinary policies; Part III. The Troops: 6. Soviet soldiers' views of the countries of the Balkans and central Europe; 7. Sexual violence; 8. After the war; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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