Professor Seth Bernstein received a Publication Subvention grant for his book, Return to the Motherland: Soviet Displaced Persons in World War II and the Cold War, published with Cornell University Press. The book covers the situation of the end of World War II, when more than five million people returned to the Soviet Union from wartime displacement. Most had been forced laborers and prisoners of war, deported to the Third Reich to work in a crushing environment, and they returned to accusations of treason in the USSR. Using declassified Soviet police archives, the book explores their brutal but transnational experience from 1941 into the 1950s. Their story is a window onto the paradoxes of freedom and violence during war, Soviet conceptions of belonging, and debates over migration as a human right in the Cold War.