Warlands : population resettlement and state reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50 / edited by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gatrell, Peter.

Baron, Nick, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Europe, Eastern.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from the Soviet Union.

Forced migration--Soviet Union.

Forced migration.

Forced migration--Europe, Eastern.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

History.

Europe, Eastern--History--1945-1989.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xv, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

During the Second World War, the Nazis deported millions of Soviet, Baltic and Polish civilians, soldiers and prisoners of war to Germany. Many others were uprooted within occupied territories. This volume examines the 'violent peacetime' that followed the war, as these displaced persons strove to return home or to flee westwards during a time of territorial changes, the brutal imposition or reassertion of communist power, wide-spread nationalist resistance, state strategies of socio-ethnic engineering and economic reconstruction, new forms of international humanitarian intervention and emerging Cold War antagonisms. Contributors discuss the politics, personnel, administrative structures and everyday experience of Allied displaced persons camps in Germany; the political 'filtration' and sanitary screening procedures which Soviet repatriates underwent before they were permitted to return to their homes; and governmental arrangements for sorting, classifying and transferring people throughout the contested borderlands. The book pays close attention to how displacement, internment, resettlement and diaspora were experienced by migrants, and how they have been remembered and commemorated. Warlands will appeal to anyone interested in population displacement as state practice and social experience.

Contents:

1 From 'Homelands' to 'Warlands': Themes, Approaches, Voices / Peter Gatrell 1

Part I Transit: National Experiences and International Interventions in Postwar Displaced Persons Camps 23

2 Living in the Displaced Persons Camp: Lithuanian War Refugees in the West, 1944-54 / Tomas Balkelis 25

3 'How those Brothers in Foreign Lands are Dividing the Fatherland': Latvian National Politics in Displaced Persons Camps after the Second World War / Aldis Purs 48

4 The Quaker Internationalist Tradition in Displaced Persons Camps, 1945-48 / Jenny Carson 67

Part II Return: Soviet Postwar Resettlement Practices and Population Management 87

5 Remaking Soviet Society: the Filtration of Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944-49 / Nick Baron 89

6 Dirt, Disease and Disorder: Population Re-placement in Postwar Leningrad and the 'Danger' of Social Contamination / Siobhan Peeling 117

7 The Repatriation of Armenians to Soviet Armenia, 1945-49 / Joanne haycock 140

Part III Border Crossings: State Practices of Displacement and National Reconstruction 163

8 Ukrainian-Polish Population Transfers, 1944-46: Moving in Opposite Directions / Kateryna Stadnik 165

9 To Pacify, Populate and Polonise: Territorial Transformations and the Displacement of Ethnic Minorities in Communist Poland, 1944-49 / Konrad Zielinski 188

10 Population Displacement and Regional Reconstruction in Postwar Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia / Ewa Ochman 210

Part IV The Politics of Memory: Long-Term Perspectives on Displacement 229

11 Locating Estonia: Perspectives from Exile and the Homeland / Meike Wulf 231

12 Violent Peacetime: Reconceptualising Displacement and Resettlement in the Soviet-East European Borderlands after the Second World War / Peter Gatrell, Nick Baron 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230576018

023057601X

OCLC:

429598359