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Author : Stanisław Swianiewicz
Publisher : Pender Island, B.C. : Borealis Pub.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112289066
Author : Wojciech Materski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151855
In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.
Author : Alexander Etkind,Rory Finnin,Uilleam Blacker,Julie Fedor,Simon Lewis,Maria Mälksoo,Matilda Mroz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745662961
Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, most likely, Belarus. Today their ghosts haunt the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe. This book traces the legacy of Katyn through the interconnected memory cultures of seven countries: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States. It explores the meaning of Katyn as site and symbol, event and idea, fact and crypt. It shows how Katyn both incites nationalist sentiments in Eastern Europe and fosters an emerging cosmopolitan memory of Soviet terror. It also examines the strange impact of the 2010 plane crash that claimed the lives of Poland’s leaders en route to Katyn. Drawing on novels and films, debates and controversies, this book makes the case for a transnational study of cultural memory and navigates a contested past in a region that will define Europe’s future.
Author : Jane Rogoyska
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078933
WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ‘A gripping reconstruction… utterly compelling reading.’ Adam Zamoyski ‘This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.’ Geoffrey Alderman, Times Higher Education The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyn explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake – the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators – whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable, unknowable, and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.
Author : Allen Paul
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757204
Author : George Sanford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134303007
Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 - one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War - this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation and Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances on the Katyn Forest Massacre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
ISBN : OSU:32435078695582
Author : J. K. Zawodny
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251671
MORE THAN 15,000 Polish soldiers, among them 800 Doctors of Medicine, were murdered in one operation. Originally they had been taken into captivity by the Soviet Army in 1939. There was a possibility, however, that the prisoners, while still alive, had been taken from Soviet custody by German forces in 1941. Some of the bodies were found in German-held territory. The ropes with which their hands were tied were Soviet-made, but the bullets with which the men were killed were of German origin. The Soviet and German governments accused each other of the massacre. To obtain or remove the evidence, the intelligence services of several nations carried on a merciless secret contest in the Katyn Forest, Poland, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States. Men disappeared; so did files, including one from the United States Military Intelligence Office. In the process a key witness was found hanged, diplomatic and military careers were destroyed in the United States, personnel of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg lied by omission, and so did some of the greatest Allied leaders of the Second World War. This book attempts to reconstruct, in detail, the fate of the prisoners and to provide the answers to these questions: (1) Who killed these men? (2) How were they killed? (3) Why were they killed?
Author : Paul Kellogg
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771992459
Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system. And finally, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of strikes by new, independent miners’ unions were central to overturning the Stalinist system. Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers’ resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.
Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009098984
Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.
Author : Rhys Dafydd Jones,James Robinson,Jennifer Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317568919
What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines these and other questions relating to the role of absence and presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce ideas about space, society, and belonging. Between Absence and Presence contains six empirically-focussed chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around the world. These studies examine how particular groups’ relationships with places and spaces are characterized by experiences that are neither wholly present nor wholly absent. Each author demonstrates the variety of ways in which absence and presence are experienced – through silence, forgetting, concealment, distance, and the virtual – and constituted – through visual, aural, and technological. Such accounts also raise philosophical questions about representation and belonging: what must remain absent, and what is allowed to be present? Who decides, and how? Whose voices are heard? Recognizing the complexity of these questions, Between Absence and Presence provides a significant contribution in reconciling theorizations of absence with everyday life. This book was published a sa special issue of Space and Polity.
Author : Salomon W. Slowes
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0631179674
The author gives his account of Stalin's massacre of the Poles in 1940 at Katyn Forest
Author : Eric Karpeles
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681372853
A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.
Author : David R. Shearer,Vladimir Khaustov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300171891
This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030135072
This volume brings together Ron Eyerman’s most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research paradigm. This collection of disparate essays, published between 2004 and 2018, coheres around an original introduction that not only provides a historical overview of cultural trauma, but is also an important theoretical contribution to cultural trauma and collective identity in its own right. The Afterword from esteemed sociologist Eric Woods connects the essays and explores their significance for the broader fields of sociology, behavioral science, and trauma studies..
