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.

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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

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Павел Полян. Не по своей воле...История и география принудительных миграций в СССР (Pavel Polyan, Not by Their Own Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR). ОГИ Мемориал, Moscow, 2001. ISBN 5-94282-007-4.