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During his reign over the former Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin
oversaw the forced resettlement of six million people -- a maniacal
passion that he used for social engineering. The Soviets were not
the first to thrust resettlement on its population -- a major
characteristic of totalitarian systems -- but in terms of sheer
numbers, technologies used to deport people and the lawlessness
which accompanied it, Stalin's process was the most notable. Six
million people of different social, ethnic, and professions were
resettled before Stalin's death. Even today, the aftermath of such
deportations largely predetermines events which take place in the
northern Caucasus, Crimea, the Baltic republics, Moldavia, and
western Ukraine. Polian's volume is the first attempt to
comprehensively examine the history of forced and semivoluntary
population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union.
Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of
repressed nationalities in the 1990s dealing with internal (kulaks,
ethnic and political deportations) and international forced
migrations (German internees and occupied territories). An
abundance of facts, figures, tables, maps, and an
exhaustively-detailed annex will serve as important sources for
further researches.
Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both
historically and politically. This is due to the modernisation of
anti-Semitism in the West, where accusations of ritual murder have
long been passe and claims that the Holocaust was a hoax are de
riguer, and to the government sanctions of anti-Semitism in the
East in countries such as Iran. The purely scholarly problem of
determining the number of victims, like other aspects of demography
related to the Holocaust, have suddenly become closely embroiled in
geopolitics and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which is now a
context that has been forced upon it. This book is imbued with
these connections and interrelationships. Avraham, Wolfgang Benz,
Sergio Della Pergola, Mark Kupovetsky, Dieter Pohl, Aron Shneer,
and the editors contribute their voices to the topic.
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