“Deportation in East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Snapshots of Invisible Incarceration” is the 13th volume in the series South-East European History, edited by Mihai Dragnea and published by Peter Lang on behalf of the Balkan History Association (BHA). Two of the three editors (Mihaela Martin, Michael D. Sagatis) are members of the Association. The volume presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R, collectively highlighting the long-term effects of these policies and their significance to contemporary societies in Eastern Europe. Deportation was a pervasive phenomenon, with socio-economic, demographic, and political implications that have structurally affected the shape and composition of contemporary European societies. Whether considering political repression, ideological clashes, social upheavals, territorial claims, ethnic cleansing, or conflicts within and between societies, deportation was a destabilizing factor across all aspects of twentieth-century East European history.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
The Evolution of a Massacre: The Uniqueness of Kamenets-Podolsk (Dorottya Sziszkoszné-Halász)
‘We Are Dragged Off to Siberia!’ Deported Hungarians under Soviet Duress, 1956–1957 (Miklós Horváth)
First ‘Circulating’ and Later ‘Educating’: Enver Hoxha and the Disempowerment of the Techno-Bureaucratic Establishment in Communist Albania (Artan R. Hoxha)
Hungarian Jewish Women in the Sömmerda Forced Labour Camp: Narratives on the Woman’s Body (Heléna Huhák)
Everyday Life of Forced Immigrants on the Territory of Eastern Galicia under the Conditions of the Soviet Totalitarian Regime from 1939 to 1941 (Ilnytskyi Vasyl, Starka Volodymyr)
Deportation of Crimean Tatars: Constructing the Myth of the Lost Homeland (Martin-Oleksandr Kisly)
Operation ‘Thunderstorm’: Deportation to the Kazakh SSR in 1951 (Based on Unpublished Archive Materials of the Former KGB Archive of the Georgian SSR) (Vladimer Luarsabishvili)
Ambiguous Belongings: The 1940 Refugees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in Oltenia (Diana-Mihaela Păunoiu)
Creating the Enemy: Roma People Between Discrimination and Deportation. The Romanian Case (Daniela Popescu, Manuela Marin)
Mosaic of a Social Memory: How the North Caucasians Recall the Deportation (Victor Shnirelman)
Dealing with ‘The Domestic Enemy’ – Internment of National Minorities in Hungarian Camps During the First World War (László Somogyi)
Vapniarka: Forms of Antifascist Resistance in the Camp of Death (Olga Stefan)
Deportation Routes to Bergen-Belsen from Hungary, 1944–1945: Personal Narratives of Hungarian Jews (András Szécsényi)
Germans or Bulgarians? The German Population in Bulgaria Between Exclusion and Inclusion at the End of the Second World War (Lyubomira Valcheva-Nundloll)
From Greek Macedonia to Asia Minor: Deportation or Forced Migration of Muslims Based on the Lausanne Peace Treaty (Vlasis Vlasidis, Areti Makri, Aikaterini Yannoukakou)
Notes on Contributors
List of Index Terms
