Kyiv as Regime City. The Return of Soviet Power after Nazi Occupation.

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Charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after the end of Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers efforts to retain political legitimacy. Drawing on the once closed archives of the Soviet Union, Kyiv as Regime City shows how failed attempts to conscript a labor force and begin the citys reconstruction led the Stalin regime in Moscow and the Ukrainian Communists on the ground to adopt new tactics to win support among the large Ukrainian and Jewish populations who again called the city home.