Reviews for The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union

The average rating for The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-02 00:00:00 Glenn Arakaki A thoughtful and well-researched account of a once-infamous, now-forgotten pogrom in what is now Moldova, which claimed scores of Jewish lives. The author does a good job explaining the forces at work that lead to the pogrom and determining just how complicit the government was in the tragedy. I do, however, think the book was a bit dry. There could potentially have been exciting glimpses of the action itself -- certainly the author had the resources, in the form of court testimony. I would recommend this for people interested in Russian Jewish history, but not for the general reader.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-31 00:00:00 John Griffin Very interesting book combining a journalistic approach with an historian's attention to sources. Remarkably the author avoids references to rapes and violence against women which must have occurred. I would have liked a map of old Chisinau to help understand the geography of events. Apart from this, it looked to me to be a balanced report on a black page of European history. Well written and a quick read.