"An extremely useful and much needed survey. Over eleven chapters,
authors from eight countries cover the complex history of migration
from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and
1993. Following in the footsteps of Klaus Bade's Encyclopedia of
European Migrations, the authors make extensive use of sources in
national languages, while providing an extensive overview of
population movements in the region between the Baltic, Black, and
Adriatic Seas. The individual chapters shed light on phenomena
overlooked in other volumes, including individual state reactions
to various migratory phenomenon, and the political, economic, and
ideological consequences of human movement. The chapters of this
volume are uniform not only in their informative nature, but also
in suggesting new pathways for in-depth research." Adam Walaszek,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland "Eastern Europe is an
emblematic space of mobility and its Cold War history cannot be
told without considering migration from and into the countries of
the region. This volume comes at a timely moment and provides a
uniquely comprehensive account, full with useful information for
further research. It will be a must-read both for migration studies
scholars and for area specialists." Ulf Brunnbauer, Leibniz
Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg,
Germany "The Handbook is a gift to students of migration on three
counts. It gathers the expertise of scholars fluent in the
languages - and familiar with the archives - of Eastern and Central
Europe. Thus it brings the multi-layered and complex histories of
movement beyond the flat descriptor of "Soviet bloc" or Eastern
European migrations. The Handbook is both rich and lucid,
presenting in-depth materials on the European twentieth-century, on
one hand, and organizing each chapter in a similar way, offering
the reader transparently comparable histories. From Estonia south
to Albania, and from the USSR west to the GDR, each chapter
elucidates a complex migration history distinguished by national
politics, ethnic composition, and economics - moving from the
cataclysmic impacts of World War II to the international migrations
and politics of Cold War movement, as well as the politics of Cold
War emigrants themselves. Each chapter ends with an epilogue on
post-1989 international migrations and a valuable addendum on
published and archival sources. Finally, the Handbook models the
kind of high quality work produced by international scholarly
cooperation at its best." Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State
University Table of contents Introduction (Anna Mazurkiewicz)
Albania (Agata Domachowska) Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania (Pauli Heikkila) Bulgaria (Detelina Dineva)
Czechoslovakia (Michael Cude and Ellen Paul) Germany (Bethany
Hicks) Hungary (Katalin Kadar Lynn) Poland (Slawomir Lukasiewicz)
Romania (Beatrice Scutaru) Ukraine (Anna Fin) USSR (Alexey
Antoshin) Yugoslavia (Brigitte Le Normand)
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