title: Voices from the Past: Epistolary Sources on Tambov POW Camps During the Second World War
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metadata.value: Mizis, Yu. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:30:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-28T16:30:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Mizis Yu. A. Voices from the Past: Epistolary Sources on Tambov POW Camps During the Second World War, Modern History of Russia, no. 3, 2017, pp. 35–48.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8649
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines and analyzes a special type of sources on the history of the creation and functioning
  of POW camps in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War and the first post-war years. Documents from
  two Tambov camps No. 64 and No. 188 were taken for study. Letters of war prisoners to their relatives and friends,
  appeals to their comrades at the front and ceremonial thank-you albums that were written by them before they
  were sent home. They are united by one main feature: they were written under the strong influence of the political
  departments of the camps and served propaganda purposes. However, despite strict censorship, the documents
  contain quite reliable information about the positi on of prisoners of war, their attitude to the war, and concern for
  their relatives and friends. Of particular interest are the letters of prisoners of war of different nationalities, written
  in January — March 1943, which were never sent to their destination, perhaps some of them were replicated in
  the form of leaflets and scattered over the front line. The bulk of such documents remained forever in the folder of documents of the State Security Committee of the NKVD of the USSR. The letters contain enough information
  about the situation in captivity, written to calm their relatives, while in the camps massive diseases and high mortality
  reigned. At the same time, there are constant requests for food, smoking and some household items, which
  the prisoners of war were sorely lacking. In letters, the idea of the imminent end of the war and the return from
  captivity is constantly refreshed. Three appeals written by anti-fascist prisoners of war for their comrades at the
  front were to play a powerful campaigning role and influence the German soldiers and their allies fighting at the
  front. Parade albums of prisoners of war prepared before sending home are another interesting source, characterizing
  the point of view of prisoners of war, anti-fascists.
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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Issue 3(20)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: camp
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prisoners
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: letters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: album
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: NKVD
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tambov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Voices from the Past: Epistolary Sources on Tambov POW Camps During the Second World War
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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