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Book SynopsisThe displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'. This book focuses on the profound political, social and economic upheavals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at this time.
Trade Review"It is inter-ethnic subtleties of this kind which are brought to light so well in this excellent collection of essays - essential reading for students of Central and Eastern Europe." - European History Quarterly
"The strengths of Warlands are numerous, and the volume represents an impressive contribution to a growing body of scholarship on resettlement." - Journal of Contemporary History
Table of ContentsPreface& Acknowledgements List of Maps and Photos Abbreviations From 'Homelands' to 'Warlands': Themes, Approaches, Voices; P.Gatrell PART I: TRANSIT: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN POST-WAR DP CAMPS Living in the DP Camp: Lithuanian Refugees in the West, 1944-1954; T.Balkelis 'How those brothers in foreign lands are dividing the fatherland': Latvian National Politics in Displaced Persons Camps after the Second World War; A.Purs The Quaker Internationalist Tradition in Displaced Person Camps 1945-1948; J.Carson PART II: RETURN: SOVIET POST-WAR RESETTLEMENT PRACTICES AND POPULATION MANAGEMENT Remaking Soviet Society: the Filtration of Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944-1949; N.Baron Dirt, Disease and Disorder: Population Re-placement in Post-war Leningrad and the 'Danger' of Social Contamination; S.Peeling Chapter 7: The Repatriation of Armenians to Soviet Armenia, 1945-1949 (Joanne Laycock) PART III: BORDER CROSSINGS: STATE PRACTICES OF DISPLACEMENT AND NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION Ukrainian-Polish Population Transfers, 1944-1946: Moving in Opposite Directions; K.Stadnik To Pacify, Populate and Polonize: Territorial Transformations and the Displacement of Ethnic Minorities in Communist Poland, 1944-1949; K.Zielinski Population Displacement and Regional Reconstruction in Post-War Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia; E.Ochman PART IV: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY: LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON DISPLACEMENT Locating Estonia: Perspectives from Exile and the Homeland; M.Wulf Violent Peacetime: Reconceptualising Displacement and Resettlement in the Soviet-East European Borderlands after the Second World War; P.Gatrell & N.Baron Index
