The Chaotic Transition from War to Peace in Soviet-Occupied Europe, 1945-53

历史学家正在努力理解二战后苏联占领的欧洲从战争到和平的混乱和暴力过渡的复杂性。该项目旨在对新解密的档案数据采用创新方法，以比较该地区社会崩溃、饥荒和重建的经历。这种广泛的比较方法旨在解决一个悬而未决的问题，即为什么对苏联国家的暴力，最终导致叛乱，出现在一些地区，而不是其他地区。由此产生的出版物有可能改变我们对叛乱和反叛乱对战后苏联发展的影响的看法。它们将为关于历史记忆和国家建设的国际辩论提供信息，并重塑这种辩论。

Historians are struggling to understand the complexities of the chaotic and violent transition from war to peace in Soviet-occupied Europe after the second World War. This project seeks to apply an innovative methodology to newly declassified archival data so as to compare the experiences of social collapse, famine and reconstruction across this region. This broad comparative approach aims to address the unresolved question of why violence against the Soviet state, culminating in insurgency, emerged in some areas and not others. The resulting publications have the potential to change the way we think about the effects of insurgency and counter-insurgency on post-war Soviet development. They will inform and reshape international debates on historical memory and state-building.