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Chaps

I've also read this book and can strongly recommend it to others. I only
have the English version
If any one wishes to read a bit of it please have a look at


Paul




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Thanks Ed,
The good news is that I have this book in it's English translation as well
as the Polish original. It is called "Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing in

Poland - Tales of the Deported 1940-1946". It is indeed a valuable book.
Marek Duchnowski, a recent member of our group, was responsible for

the book on the web - and if you visit the site, I'm sure you will agree
that it is a masterpiece!

Go to www.StalinsEthnicCleansing.com for more information on the English
version and for information on how to order copies. (Marek, this may be a
good time to get the publishers to accept credit cards and/or to accept US
funds).

I should also say that I have built a little library of perhaps 15 books

this topic in the last year, and one which I found very informative is by
Jan T. Gross (yes, the same one who later wrote about Jedwabne). it is
called "Revolution from Abroad : The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western
Ukraine and Western Belorussia". He based his research on the Hoover
Institution archive of testimonies left by the deportees who joined Anders
Army (like Ed!). Here is the weblink to Amazon books to check it out:


Though it is out of print, they have a used book service where you can
order
it over the web for US$25 and up. I have taken the liberty of appending a
review of the book, from the Amazon site.
--
Stefan Wisniowski
Moderator, Kresy-Siberia

Brilliant analysis of an ignored event of World War II, May 21, 2000
Reviewer: seydlitz89 from Portugal

The main primary source of this book is a collection of thousands of
handwritten statements collected by the Polish government in exile when

they

interviewed the surviving Polish citizens released after the 1942

"amnesty" of

those detained by the Soviets after 1939. By careful research,

crosschecking

and comparison with other resources Professor Gross has been able to

produce a

work of exceptional clarity and importance in understanding the workings

of

Stalinism in particular and totalitarianism in general.

He provides an outline of Soviet occupation policy and methods. The

process seems to have been well planned out, one phase setting up the
conditions to implement the second, which in turn set up the conditions

for

the third, all this operating within an artificial atmosphere of fear,

chaos

and confusion. An initial period of lawlessness, promoted by the Soviets

in

order for a rapid collapse of the old order accompanied by the promoting

of

ethic hatreds among the four main groups- Poles, Ukrainians,

and

Jews, was followed by rapid consolidation of police powers by those who

owed

their new won power to Soviet authority alone. In the process of laying

out

this interesting story, Gross adds many interesting insights.

Discussion of social control, prisons and deportation, NKVD

methods (including use of female interrogators) and much more provides a

well

rounded sketch of this particularly brutal episode of Polish history. I

found

his analysis of the "privatization of the public realm", "the spoiler

state",

"totalitarian language", and Soviet use of family networks to insure
discipline and control illuminating.

Actually the only short coming of this very interesting book is that is

was

published in 1988 just before the end of the Soviet Union and thus

produced

without the use of the since partially-opened Soviet archives. He only

has

limited information on the Katyn massacres for instance. While this

should not

affect his conclusions or insights, it may give more accurate statistics

than

those quoted. Perhaps a new revised edition is called for. In the

meantime,

this book should be a welcome addition to any library on Polish history,
Soviet history or the history of World War II.

From: "edtar" <edtar@...>
Reply-To: Kresy-Siberia@...
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:01:44 -0400
To: <Kresy-Siberia@...>
Subject: [Kresy-Siberia] Information about Kresy

The best source of information about Kresy is the book "Z Kresow

Wschodnich

R.P. Na Wygnanie". It is a collection of memories and descriptions of
settlements of 142 survivors of Kresy from almost as many Osady

(settlements)

on the Kresy. Unfortunately it is only in Polish. I was told once that

it is

being translated. The book (700 pages) was published by Ognisko Rodzin
Osadnikow Kresowych in London, 1996. ISBN 1 872286 33 X, printed by

Caldra

House LTD, 23 Coleridge Street, Hove, Sussex BN3 5AB. The book contains
information about how the settlements came into being, various

statistics and

how they progressed and fared up to 1940- 48.

Edward Tarchalski, Kresowiak
and survivor of Siberia.

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