Czechoslovak diplomacy and the gulag : deportation of Czechoslovak citizens to the USSR and the negotiation for their repatriation, 1945-1953 / Milada Polisenská ; English translation by Barbara Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polišenská, Milada, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Day, Barbara, 1944- translator.

Standardized Title:

Čechoslováci v Gulagu a československá diplomacie, 1945-1953. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.

World War, 1939-1945.

Forced labor--Soviet Union--History.

Forced labor.

Labor camps--Soviet Union--History.

Labor camps.

Czechs--Soviet Union--History.

Czechs.

Slovaks--Soviet Union--History.

Slovaks.

Repatriation--Czechoslovakia--History.

Repatriation.

Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Czechoslovakia.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Czechoslovakia.

Soviet Union.

Czechoslovakia--Foreign relations--1945-1992.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Place of Publication:

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the entry of the Red Army into Czechoslovak territory in 1945, Red Army authorities began to arrest and deport Czechoslovak citizens to labor camps in the Soviet Union. The regions most affected were Eastern and South Slovakia and Prague. The Czechoslovak authorities repeatedly requested a halt to the deportations and that the deported Czechoslovaks be returned immediately. It took a long time before these protests generated any response. Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag focuses on the diplomatic and political aspects of the deportations. The author explains the steps taken by the Czechoslovak Government in the repatriation agenda from 1945 to 1953 and reconstructs the negotiations with the Soviets. The research tries to answer the question of why and how the Russians deported the civilian population from Czechoslovakia which was their allied country already during the war. Key words: 1. World War, 1939–1945—Deportations from Czechoslovakia. 2. Forced labor—Soviet Union—History. 3. Labor camps—Soviet Union—History. 4. Czechs—Soviet Union—History. 5. Slovaks—Soviet Union—History. 6. Czechoslovakia—Foreign relations—Soviet Union. 7. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—Czechoslovakia. 8. Czechoslovakia—Foreign relations—1945–1992. 9. Repatriation—Czechoslovakia—History.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

Some notes on the concept of Czechoslovakia from the point of view of the constitution and national identity

The constitutional concept of Slovakia

The position of the ruling circles on the issue of nationalities in Czechoslovakia

Citizenship in postwar Czechoslovakia and the decrees of President Beneš

CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS INHABITANTS AS THE VICTIMS OF DEPORTATION

Deportations from Slovakia

Circumstances of deportation

Personal stories of deported civilians

Prisoners of war, auxiliary help and the Levente

Other deportations from Czechoslovakia to the USSR

The deportation of emigres from Russia and Ukraine and the forced repatriation of Soviet citizens

Subcarpathian Rus and Transcarpathian Ukraine

Czechoslovak Silesia : the Teschen, Hlucín and Kravare regions

POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY

Czechoslovak-Soviet repatriation negotiations

Flouting of the Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of 8 May 1944 by the Soviet Union in 1945

Czechoslovak and Soviet information and arguments in 1946

The enforcement of the selective principle

Screenings and transports

The repatriation camp in Luisdorf near Odessa

The repatriation camp Marmaros Sziget in Romania

The final phase of screening in Luisdorf and Sziget

Czechoslovak diplomats in Moscow in charge of the repatriations agenda

The official termination of repatriation and the epilogue

Reaction of Czechoslovak institutions, numbers and reports

The repatriation obligations of the USSR and international diplomacy

The return to Czechoslovakia of deportees and prisoners from the USSR after the official termination of repatriation

Other dimensions of repatriation diplomacy

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Agreement concerning the relationship between the Czechoslovak administration and the Soviet High Command after the entry of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak territory

Appendix 2. The number of Czechoslovak citizens deported and the number repatriated at the end of World War II and in the postwar period : estimates in publications

Appendix 3. Map of Slovakia : localities from which people were deported to the Gulag in 1945

Appendix 4. Map of the Soviet Union : camps to which Czechoslovaks were deported

Appendix 5. Commentary on the list of civilians deported from the territory of Czechoslovakia to the USSR at the end of world War II

Appendix 6. Overview of repatriations to Slovakia according to district (to 31 January 1949)

Index of names

Index of places

Russian abstract.

Notes:

Translation of the Czech publication, Cechoslováci v Gulagu a ceskoslovenská diplomacie, 1945-1953, published by the LIBRI publishing house in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71906-6

963-386-011-3

9781003719069

OCLC:

927154903