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Deportation and Exile
Keith Sword
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Description for Deportation and Exile
hardcover. This is a description of 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, thousands made their exit into Persia in 1942. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1DVU; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWQ; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russia and East Europe
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333593769
SKU
V9780333593769
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About Keith Sword
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 ... Read more
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