Table of Contents:
  • 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)