03902cam a2200469 i 4500 24001040 20260616144715.0 250122s2024 onca b 001 0 eng 1487556489 9781487556488 (cloth) 24001040 (OCoLC)1424738234 NLC eng rda YDX NLC BDX NLC OCLCO YDX DLC DD78.R87 B49 2024 Beyda, Oleg, author. For Russia with Hitler : white Russian émigrés and the German-Soviet war / Oleg Beyda. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2024 xiv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Lasting Crusade: The Russian All-Military Union (ROVS) in the World of Exile -- Swastikas Rising: Émigrés and Nazi Germany -- "A Dawn of Liberation" Is Rising over Russia: Russian Military Exile and the German-Soviet War, 1941-1945 -- A Troubled Cooperation: Russian Émigrés and the German Bans -- Forbidden but Still Marching On: Recruitment of Émigré Volunteers and Forms of Involvement -- Homecoming: Personal Outlooks on the War in the USSR -- Collecting the Shards: Perspectives on Life under Occupation -- Darker Shades of Field Grey: Émigrés and Nazi Occupation Policy -- The Long Defeat: Russian Military Exile after 1945. "The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile which never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a superstructure, the dominant military organization, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS). Eventually, militant anti-Bolshevism led the exiled Russians into alliance with Nazi Germany, despite the latter's anti-Slavic stance. For Russia with Hitler tells the story of how thousands of White Russian émigrés joined the German invasion of the Soviet Union as soldiers, translators, and civilian workers. Oleg Beyda investigates and contextualizes émigré collaboration with National Socialist Germany, explaining how it was possible for Russians to fight against the Russians. The book reveals that the exiles, although united ideologically by Russian nationalism in a general sense, did not establish one single, clear-cut political solution for a future "liberated Russia." Drawing on wide archival material, For Russia with Hitler details the background and ideological framework of the émigrés, how they rationalized their support for Nazism, and what they did on the Eastern Front, including their reactions to life in occupation, war crimes, and the Holocaust."-- Issued also in electronic format. Russkiĭ obshche-voinskiĭ soi︠u︡z. Russians Germany History 20th century. Exiles Germany History 20th century. Political refugees Germany History 20th century. Anti-communist movements Soviet Union. Foreign enlistment Germany History 20th century. Russes Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle. Anticommunisme URSS. Enrôlement à l'étranger Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Refugees. Soviet Union History German occupation, 1941-1944. URSS Histoire 1917-1921 (Révolution) Réfugiés. URSS Histoire 1941-1944 (Occupation allemande) 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg BK nseq 27962 27962 nseq 0 30738 WA_961_W WA_961_W 2026-04-17 0 22814 00022814 2026-04-17 00:00:00 2026-04-17 BK