"First published in Russian as Ne po svoyey vole-- istoriya i geografiya prinuditelnykh migratsii v SSSR by OGI Memorial, in 2001."

Translated by Anna Yastrzhembska.

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History and geography of forced migrations in the USSR

ACLS Humanities eBooks.

Forced migrations: pre-history and classification

Forced migrations before Hitler and Stalin: historical excursus

Forced migrations and Second World War

Classification of forced migrations

Part I. Forced migrations within the USSR

Forced migrations before the Second World War (1919-1939)

First Soviet deportations and resettlements in 1919-1929

Dekulakization and kulak exile in 1930-1931

Kulak exile and famine repercussions in 1932-1934

Frontier zone cleansing and other forced migrations in 1934-1939

Forced migrations during and after the Second World War (1939-1953)

Selective deportations from the annexed territories of Poland, Baltic Republics and Romania in 1939-1941

Total preventive deportation of Soviet Germans, Finns and Greeks in 1941-1942

Retributive total deportations of the peoples of the North Caucasus and Crimea in 1943-1944

Preventive forced deportations from the Transcaucasia, and other deportations during the last stage of the war in 1944-1945

Compensatory forced migrations in 1941-1946

Ethnic and other deportations after the Second World War, 1949-1953

Patterns of deported peoples settlement, and rehabilitation process

Patterns of deported peoples settlement at the destinations

Rehabilitation and internal repatriation of Kalmyks and peoples of the North Caucasus

Rehabilitation of Germans

Rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars

Rehabilitation of Meshketian Turks

Repressed peoples and ethnic conflicts on the territory of the USSR in the 1990s

Part II. International forced migrations

Internment and deportation of German civilians from European countries to the USSR

The victors labor balance and labor reparations

Internment of Germans in Southeast Europe

Internment of Germans on the territory of the Third Reich

Some outcomes of the operation on internment of Germans

Employment of labor of German civilians from European countries in the USSR, and their repatriation

Destination geography and employment of labor of German internees in the USSR

Beginning of repatriation of internees, and new labor reparations

Further repatriation process and its completion

In lieu of a conclusion: geo-demographic scale and repercussions of forced migrations in the USSR

Afterword at the crossroads of geography and history (by Anatoly Vishnevsky).

Migration, Internal > Soviet Union > History.

Forced migration > Soviet Union > History.

Political persecution > Soviet Union > History.

Deportation > Soviet Union > History.

World War, 1939-1945 > Forced repatriation.