Not by Their Own Will

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Book cover: Stalin's arm, holding his famous smoking pipe, casually herds people

Not by Their Own Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR is a historical research book by Pavel Polyan, published by the Memorial society. It is the first comprehensive study of all massive-scale forced migrations within the Soviet Union. The book is based on published materials and archival data made public. It contains a large number of summary tables.

The table of contents gives a fair summary of the book.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Forced migrations: prehistory and classification
• *Forced migrations before Hitler and Stalin
• *Forced migratins and World War II
• *Classification of forced migrations
• Part I. Intra-Union Forced Migrations
• *Forced migrations before WWII (1919-1939)
• **First Soviet deportations and resettlements of 1919-1929
• **Dekulakization and kulak exile of 1930-1931
• **Kulak exile and consequences of the famine of 1932-1934
• **Border cleansing and other forced migrations of 1934-1939
• *Forced migrations during and after WWII (1939-1953)
• **Selective deportations from annexed territories of Poland, Baltic States, and Romania of 1939-1941
• **Total preventive deportations of Soviet Germans, Finns and Greeks of 1941-1942
• **Total "retribution" deportations of peoples of North Caucasus and Crimea of 1943-1944
• **Forced preventive deportations from Transcaucasus and other deportations by the end of the war, 1944-1945
• **Compensatory forced migrations of 1941-1946
• **Ethnic and other deportations of 1949-195
• *Geography of the settlement of deported peoples and the process of their rehabilitation in the USSR
• Part II. International forced migrations
• *Internment and deportation of civil Germans to USSR
• *Labor and repatriation of civil Germans from European countries
• Conclusion: Geodemographic scale and consequences of forced migrations in the USSR

Reference

External link

• () [The book online], on the site of Memorial

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