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Jonathan Otto Pohl's monograph covers the 1941 deportation of ethnic Germans from the western USSR, their forced resettlement in Siberia and Kazakhstan, and the labor army conscription that followed through 1955. It is a scholarly volume in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series, built on archival records and survivor testimony rather than memoir. Readers of Soviet history and ethnic-cleansing studies are the core audience; it is narrower and more documented than general accounts of Stalin-era deportations, and reviewers treat it as a reference work rather than a narrative read.
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Academic reviewers and readers in Russian-German studies treat the book as a careful, well-sourced account of a subject long under-covered in English. They praise the archival depth and the attention to the labor army phase. Some find the prose dry and the chronology hard to follow without prior background.
This book covers the history of ethnic Germans in the USSR from 1941 to 1955. Its subjects are their deportation, their time in special settlement, and their mobilization into the labor army.
It was written by Jonathan Otto Pohl and is part of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series. This edition is a paperback in English.