Men, women and children on occupied territories of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War: the population size and losses Cover Image

Мужчины, женщины и дети на оккупированных территориях СССР в годы Великой Отечественной войны: Численность и потери
Men, women and children on occupied territories of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War: the population size and losses

Author(s): Sergej Dmitriyevich Morozov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Military history, Political history, Gender history, Social development, Studies in violence and power, Family and social welfare, Victimology, Sociology of Culture, History of Communism, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: USSR; Germany; the war; men; women; children; genocide; occupation; destruction of the population;

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the losses among civil population on the occupied territories of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. The author makes use of a wide range of documentary sources and literature on Great Patriotic and World War II history. His own calculations and also statistic data on the losses of civilians (men, women, and children) of the other authors are presented and analyzed. The material is based on the general methodological principles of historical knowledge (the most important of which are objectivity, historicism), and also concrete methods of historical research. The methods used include those employed in a wide range of sciences, historical and special methods (borrowed from other sciences): logical, synchronous and chronological, retrospective, structurally systematic method, the mathematical analysis, sociological method and others.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-48
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian