Sumpf The Broken Years

Russia's Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-05168-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

The Broken Years tells the forgotten story of Russia's disabled ex-servicemen through three wars and three revolutions: the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Civil War and the First World War. Using extensive archival material from national, regional and town archives, Alexandre Sumpf explores the treatment of these veterans by the state, their battle for legal status and their right to both collective and individual health care. He shows how the question of disabled veterans became bound up in broader political and social debates in the early 20th century and fostered healthcare and social welfare policy. The experience of these 1.14 million war veterans reconfigured notions of heroism, sacrifice and patriotism while the period of 1915-1919 was marked by extensive political activism by disabled veterans. Dr Sumpf illustrates how the Bolsheviks condemned disabled veterans as the symbol of the “imperialist war” and brutally negated their rights as part of the broader devaluation of the war experience in early Soviet Russia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sumpf, Alexandre

Sumpf, Alexandre (Universite de Strasbourg)

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. An overwhelming loss; 2. The right to health; 3. A social status renegotiated by the war; 4. Discriminatory social welfare; 5. An ephemeral political spring; 6. The devaluation of war experience; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Sumpf, Alexandre
Alexandre Sumpf is Assistant Professor at the University of Strasbourg. He has published six books, including From Lenin to Gagarin: A Social History of the USSR (2013), The Forgotten Great War. Russia, 1914-1918 (2014), Rasputin (2016) and 1917: Russia and Russians in Revolutions (2017).