{"product_id":"soviet-internment-memory-nostalgia-and-the-pow-experience-hardcover-3","title":"Soviet Internment: Memory, Nostalgia, and the POW Experience - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Cristina Galmarini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eduring the Second World War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIt reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto Montini, who was captured by the Soviet Army in 1942, interned in a prisoners' hospital in Mordovia, and then repatriated to Italy in 1945.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an analysis of Umberto's copious life-writings, \u003ci\u003eSoviet Internment\u003c\/i\u003eexamines the testimony of a surviving WWII prisoner, whose memories were haunted by the fury of war and whose body carried deep physical and emotional traces but who nonetheless felt a nostalgic attachment to his place of internment. The book brings theoretical questions about memory, trauma, and European people's political trajectories into sustained contact with an individual's specific experience, organically prompting a reconsideration of key 20th-century events in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Cristina Galmarini\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmbassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e (2024) and \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47293762142457,"sku":"9781350507739","price":122.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QEOiD8MB-V9781350507739_d0113634-535b-40ea-826f-f6e076cad37d.webp?v=1769181267","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/soviet-internment-memory-nostalgia-and-the-pow-experience-hardcover-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}