This edited collection presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. _e chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R, collectively highlighting the long-term effects of these policies and their significance to contemporary societies in Eastern Europe.
Deportation was a pervasive phenomenon, with socio-economic, demographic, and political implications that have structurally affected the shape and composition of contemporary European societies. Whether considering political repression, ideological clashes, social upheavals, territorial claims, ethnic cleansing, or conflicts within and between societies, deportation was a destabilizing factor across all aspects of twentieth-century East European history.
Applying cross-disciplinary perspectives, each case study makes extensive use of archival material or oral histories, presenting the stories of those "undesirables" who were cast out by political systems and the communities torn apart by their removal. These snapshots are not just memories of a time gone by, but visceral encounters with individuals, communities, ethnic and religious groups - a scholarly gaze into experiences that spanned across various realms, from the physical to the psychological and the profoundly spiritual. In tracing the impact of these policies down to the present day, the authors not only recount and reassess the dark tides of history but also contemplate the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
This volume stands as a crucial resource for researchers, educators, and policymakers. The result of a project initiated by the Balkan History Association, this volume stands as a crucial resource for researchers, educators, and policy makers.
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978-1-63667-572-5 (9781636675725)
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Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Dorottya Sziszkoszne-Halasz: The Evolution of a Massacre: The Uniqueness of Kamenets-Podolsk - Miklos Horvath: 'We Are Dragged Off to Siberia!' Deported Hungarians under Soviet Duress, 1956-1957 - Artan R. Hoxha: First 'Circulating' and Later 'Educating': Enver Hoxha and the Disempowerment of the Techno-Bureaucratic Establishment in Communist Albania - Helena Huhak: Hungarian Jewish Women in the Soemmerda Forced Labour Camp: Narratives on the Woman's Body - Ilnytskyi Vasyl/Starka Volodymyr: Everyday Life of Forced Immigrants on the Territory of Eastern Galicia under the Conditions of the Soviet Totalitarian Regime from 1939 to 1941 - Martin-Oleksandr Kisly: Deportation of Crimean Tatars: Constructing the Myth of the Lost Homeland - Vladimer Luarsabishvili: Operation 'Thunderstorm': Deportation to the Kazakh SSR in 1951 (Based on Unpublished Archive Materials of the Former KGB Archive of the Georgian SSR) - Diana-Mihaela Paunoiu: Ambiguous Belongings: The 1940 Refugees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in Oltenia - Daniela Popescu/Manuela Marin: Creating the Enemy: Roma People Between Discrimination and Deportation. The Romanian Case - Victor Shnirelman: Mosaic of a Social Memory: How the North Caucasians Recall the Deportation - Laszlo Somogyi: Dealing with 'The Domestic Enemy' - Internment of National Minorities in Hungarian Camps During the First World War - Olga Stefan: Vapniarka: Forms of Antifascist Resistance in the Camp of Death - Andras Szecsenyi: Deportation Routes to Bergen-Belsen from Hungary, 1944-1945: Personal Narratives of Hungarian Jews - Lyubomira Valcheva-Nundloll: Germans or Bulgarians? The German Population in Bulgaria Between Exclusion and Inclusion at the End of the Second World War - Vlasis Vlasidis/Areti Makri/Aikaterini Yannoukakou: From Greek Macedonia to Asia Minor: Deportation or Forced Migration of Muslims Based on the Lausanne Peace Treaty - Notes on Contributors - List of Index Terms.
