ABSTRACT
The fourth chapter focuses on the home front economy and the challenges surrounding evacuee provisioning. It discusses the state’s allotments of goods to evacuees and the difficulties around getting these goods to their intended recipients. Consequently, evacuees often could not rely on official aid and had to depend on a barter system that brought evacuees and locals into constant (and necessary) contact with one another. Furthermore, wartime scarcities were accompanied by the privileging of certain groups as locals and evacuees alike competed over scarce resources. In light of their suffering in the besieged city, Leningrad evacuees received special food allotments. These allotments and Leningraders’ struggle to receive them prompted a debate over privilege and the role of sacrifice and suffering in determining one’s place in this new wartime hierarchy.
