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Exile And Identity: Polish Women in theSoviet Union During World War II [Hardcover]

Katherine R. Jolluck (Author)
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History is usually written by the well-off, the politically placed, and the victors. Here, Jolluck (history, Stanford Univ.) undertakes to write it from the woman's perspective, examining the forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Polish women to the Soviet Union during the early years of World War II. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression treaty, which included secret clauses providing for the partition of Poland between them. The Soviets used forced exile to break the will of Polish resistance and allegiance, which was inculcated in the family setting. This book relates these women's subsequent loss of family, culture, religion, and dignity, a story of deprivation and wanton behavior by the Germans that Cynthia Simmons told in Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose with a much better focus. Jolluck's work sparks interest when showing the tensions that resulted when early Polish feminists encountered the Soviet Union's forcible removal of the gender gap. But it suffers from overwriting, with some themes repeated over and over. The narrow topic makes the book a useful addition only to comprehensive World War II collections.
Harry Willems, Southeast Kansas Lib. Syst., Iola
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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“Jolluck’s book is pathbreaking not only for presenting an angaging analysis of the experiences of Polish female deportees in the Soviet Union but also for pioneering a more detailed investigation of the gender dimensions of Polish national identity. . . . Exile and Identity is important and should be read by scholars of European history and women’s studies.”
--History, Review of Books
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Book, July 12 2004
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This review is from: Exile And Identity: Polish Women in theSoviet Union During World War II (Hardcover)
This is another heartwrenching account of the suffering of the Polish people during WWII. In recent years, a slew of books have been published about Poland and Poles starting with WWII and continuing on through the end of the Cold War and beyond. The world is finding out about the Polish experience during the last 50 year, finally.
This book brings to us another sad chapter that has to be known.

I recommend this one wholeheartedly. It is a respectable addition to anyone's personal library. Buy it !!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Book, July 12 2004
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This review is from: Exile And Identity: Polish Women in theSoviet Union During World War II (Hardcover)
This is another heartwrenching account of the suffering of the Polish people during WWII. In recent years, a slew of books have been published about Poland and Poles starting with WWII and continuing on through the end of the Cold War and beyond. The world is finding out about the Polish experience during the last 50 year, finally.
This book brings to us another sad chapter that has to be known.

I recommend this one wholeheartedly. It is a respectable addition to anyone's personal library. Buy it !!!

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