The People's War: Ordinary People and Regime Strategies in a World of Extremes.

The article focuses on four papers which examined aspects of motivation and behavior as part of successive regime changes on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. It states the papers closely examine material incentives and material calculations and their role in violence and the Holocaust. It talks about how low prices were used by the Soviet leadership to privilege urban populations over the peasantry. It talks about looted goods from Polish villages during ethnic cleaning operations.