Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSRDuring his reign over the former Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin oversaw the forced resettlement of six million people -- a maniacal passion that he used for social engineering. The Soviets were not the first to thrust resettlement on its population -- a major characteristic of totalitarian systems -- but in terms of sheer numbers, technologies used to deport people and the lawlessness which accompanied it, Stalin's process was the most notable. Six million people of different social, ethnic, and professions were resettled before Stalin's death. Even today, the aftermath of such deportations largely predetermines events which take place in the northern Caucasus, Crimea, the Baltic republics, Moldavia, and western Ukraine. Polian's volume is the first attempt to comprehensively examine the history of forced and semivoluntary population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union. Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of repressed nationalities in the 1990s dealing with internal (kulaks, ethnic and political deportations) and international forced migrations (German internees and occupied territories). An abundance of facts, figures, tables, maps, and an exhaustively-detailed annex will serve as important sources for further researches. |
Contents
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FORCED MIGRATIONS DURING AND AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR 19391953 | 115 |
Total preventive deportation of Soviet Germans Finns and Greeks in 19411942 | 123 |
Retributive total deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and Crimea in 19431944 | 140 |
Preventive forced deportations from Transcaucasia and other deportations during the last stage of the war in 19441945 | 153 |
Internment of Germans in Southeast Europe | 249 |
Internment of Germans on the territory of the Third Reich | 260 |
Some outcomes of the operation for the internment of Germans | 265 |
EMPLOYMENT OF LABOR OF GERMAN CIVILIANS FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN THE USSR AND THEIR REPATRIATION | 277 |
Beginning of repatriation of internees and new labor reparations | 285 |
Further repatriation process and its completion | 290 |
GEODEMOGRAPHIC SCALE AND REPERCUSSIONS OF FORCED MIGRATIONS IN THE USSR | 305 |
AFTERWORD | 321 |
Compensatory forced migrations in 19411946 | 157 |
Ethnic and other deportations after the Second World War 19491953 | 164 |
PATTERNS OF DEPORTED PEOPLES SETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION PROCESS | 181 |
Patterns of deported peoples settlement at the destinations | 185 |
Rehabilitation and internal repatriation of Kalmyks and peoples of the North Caucasus | 194 |
Rehabilitation of Germans | 201 |
Rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars | 210 |
Rehabilitation of Meskhetian Turks | 216 |
Repressed peoples and ethnic conflicts on the territory of the former USSR in the 1990s | 223 |
INTERNATIONAL FORCED MIGRATIONS | 239 |
INTERNMENT AND DEPORTATION OF GERMAN CIVILIANS FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO THE USSR | 241 |
Repressive forced migrations in the USSR | 327 |
Chronology of official legislative acts issued by the state and party bodies of the USSR and its successor states concerning forced migrations or their c... | 335 |
Report No 800 On planned resettlement from the Kursk Oblast 20 March 1938 | 373 |
USSR Supreme Soviet declaration On the recognition as unlawful and criminal of the repressive acts against peoples who were subjected to forced res... | 375 |
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GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN TERMS | 399 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 401 |
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Common terms and phrases
APRF Archival sources areas Auman Balkars banishment Belorussia Beria Bugay camps Chechen-Ingush ASSR Chechens citizens cleansing collective farms Committee decree Communist Party Central Council of Ministers Council of People's Crimean Tatars Defense Committee resolution dekulakized deportation destination district ethnic February forced migrations former GARF Georgian SSR Gonov GULAG Ingushetians internal issued Ivnitsky January Jews Kalmyks Karachais Kazakh SSR Kazakhstan Koreans Krasnoyarsk Kray kulaks labor force Legislative acts Leningrad ment Meskhetian Turks military Ministers decree mobilization Moscow NKVD order North Caucasus Oblast OGPU operation Ossetian Party Central Committee People's Commissariat People's Commissars People's Commissars decree POWs Red Army rehabilitation repatriation repressed republics residing RGASPI RGVA Romanian RSFSR Russian Federation Soviet Germans Soviet Presidium decree special resettlers special settlements special settlers SSSR Stalin Supreme Soviet Presidium target group territory thousand persons tion total number Ukraine Ukrainian Urals USSR Council USSR Supreme Soviet Volga German western Zemskov