Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR is a historical research book by Pavel Polyan (2001), 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 numerous summary tables.
 Book cover: Joseph Stalin's arm, holding his famous pipe, casually herds people | |
| Author | Pavel Polyan |
|---|---|
Publication date | 2001 |
The book covers forced migrations of Soviet citizens within the Soviet Union, as well as forced migrations of foreign citizens into the Soviet Union. Polyan systematized previously published sources, scattered over various publications, and supplemented them with archival materials. The book uncovered the logic of these migrations.[1]
Publication
edit- Павел Полян (2001). Не по своей воле...История и география принудительных миграций в СССР (Pavel Polyan, Not of Their Own Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR). ОГИ Мемориал, Moscow, 2001. ISBN 5-94282-007-4.
- Pavel Polian (January 2004). Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR. Central European University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-963-9241-68-8.
References
edit- ^ Gregory Ioffe, Book review, doi:10.1080/10889388.2001.10641181
External links
edit- (in Russian) The book online, on the site of Memorial
- Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR Partial preview of the book at Google Book Search
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