Gender as Survival: Women's Experiences of Deportation from Romania to the Soviet Union, 1945–1950Footnote

This article has benefited greatly from critical readings by Jennifer Scanlon, Basia Nowak, Jane Wickersham, Ben St. John and the anonymous readers for Nationalities Papers. Funding for this project was provided by the ASPERA foundation and Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute.

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