Article ID: CBB830388363

Forbidden and sublime forest landscapes: narrated experiences of Latvian national partisan women after World War II (2016)

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Reinsone, Sanita (Author)


Cold War History
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Pages: 395-416


Publication Date: 2016
Edition Details: Special Section: Militarised Landscapes: Environmental Histories of the Cold War
Language: English

At the beginning of the Cold War, tens of thousands of Baltic people headed for the forests. It was the largest and longest such experience of human and forest interaction in the history of the three Baltic countries. The forest was turned into a political concept and had abruptly become a doubly sensitive zone: to the authorities it was a space of revolt subject to their control; to the locals, the forests were transformed into sites of both resistance and shelter when life was endangered. Based on recorded life story interviews, this article examines how women experienced the changes in their native landscapes after World War II in the occupied Baltic states, and what it meant for them to be labelled “forest outlaws”.

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Authors & Contributors
Chastain, Andra B.
Gudro, Ilze
Laakkonen, Simo
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
Clements, Philip William
Kellison, Robert C.
Concepts
Environment
Cold War
Forests and forestry
Environmental history
Science and politics
Public policy
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Latvia
United States
Soviet Union
Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
South Asia
Southern states (U.S.)
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