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Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948. Amnestied in 1941, recruited to Polish units formed on Soviet soil, tens of thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. The rest either made their way back to Poland as combat troops, having been recruited to a second, communist-led army in 1943-44, or else awaited formal repatriation agreements concluded towards the end of the war.
List of contents
List of Maps - Preface - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - The Mass Movement of Poles to the USSR, 1939-1941 - The Sikorski-Maisky Pact of 1941 and the 'Amnesty' for Poles confined on Soviet Territory - The Evacuation of Poles from the USSR during 1942 - The Relief Effort on behalf of 'amnestied' Poles - The Role of the Polish Communists in the USSR, 1943-1945 - Renewed Deportations from Polish Territory, 1944-1945 - Repatriation from the Soviet Union, 1944-1948 - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
About the author
KEITH SWORD is Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. His main interests are the modern history of Poland and migration from the Polish lands in recent times, as well as political and economic change in east-Central Europe. His other publications include
The Formation of the Polish Community in Great Britain, 1939-1950 (with N. Davies and J. Ciechanowski),
The Times Guide to Eastern Europe (editor) and
The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-1941 (editor).
Summary
Deportation and Exile describes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Poles - men, women and children - deported to Soviet territory by Stalin's security agencies between 1939 and 1948.
