title: “Married to a Foreigner”: A Chance of Not Returning to the Post-War USSR
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metadata.value: Ablazhey, N. N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:42:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:42:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ablazhey N. N. ‘“Married to a Foreigner”: A Chance of Not Returning to the Post-War USSR’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1045–1062.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.413
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37014
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This essay investigates marriages between displaced Soviet citizens and foreigners, in the context of
  problems of repatriation to the USSR after World War II, especially given previous policies on foreigners and persons
  without citizenship, as well as legislation on international marriages. The article analyses marriage statistics
  for 1945–1948, collected by the Soviet repatriation services, and the registration mechanisms and practices of
  repatriation for this category of citizens. Based on materials of the Office for Repatriation under the Council of
  People’s Commissars/Council of Ministers of the USSR, the legal framework for managing international marriages
  and specific steps to counteract the change of citizenship and repatriation to the USSR by persons who
  married foreigners are analysed to show how the USSR sought to complete repatriation from controlled countries
  of Eastern Europe, demanding that satellites assist in the registration and removal of all Soviet citizens. Real
  practice was based on maneuvering between prohibitions of international marriages and their legitimation, which
  made it possible to optimize repatriation, while levelling out massive departures from the country. The decision of
  the Soviet government of 24 July, 1945, endorsed by Stalin, authorising marriages with foreigners made during
  the war, and this remained in effect until the adoption of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
  USSR from 15 February, 1947, banning them. The USSR did not manage to avoid new mass emigration following
  the war, including to countries of Eastern Europe. However, Soviet citizenship was imposed on some “defectors”
  that potentially made it possible to control this population.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repatriates
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: emigration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foreigners
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international marriages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “Married to a Foreigner”: A Chance of Not Returning to the Post-War USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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