Against Their Will (Polyan's book)

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

Against Their Will... The 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 migrations and World War II
  • Classification of forced migrations
• Part I. Intra-Union Forced Migrations
  • Forced migrations before World War II (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 World War II (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 1949-1953
  • 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 German civilians to USSR
  • Labor and repatriation of German civilians from European countries
• Conclusion: Geodemographic scale and consequences of forced migrations in the USSR

References

• Павел Полян. 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. Against Their Will: The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR. Central European University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-963-9241-68-8. 

External links

• (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