Awards

• Nominated for Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies 2013
• Nominated for Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History 2013
• Nominated for Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize 2013

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Motherland in Danger is a superb contribution to our understanding of the Soviet home front and the role played more broadly by propaganda in Soviet history and the comparative history of the Second World War.--Claire P. Kaiser Nationalities Papers (07/01/2013)

[Berkhoff] persuasively argues that, contrary to the popular notion that the war loosened Soviet cultural and political controls, the goal of mobilizing citizens led to greater centralization and censorship of information...He contends that censorship and centralization led to largely bland, uninspiring, and uninformative propaganda, which succeeded in its goal of mobilizing the population only because Nazi Germany's war aims and practices left Soviet citizens no other choice but to resist. Berkhoff shows that, nevertheless, postwar (and post-Soviet) Russians largely subscribe to the myths created by wartime propaganda, indicating its enduring legacy.--K. D. Slepyan Choice (11/01/2012)

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Karel C. Berkhoff is Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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