Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945–50

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
From ‘Homelands’ to ‘Warlands’: Themes, Approaches, Voices....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Living in the Displaced Persons Camp: Lithuanian War Refugees in the West, 1944–54....Pages 25-47
‘How those Brothers in Foreign Lands are Dividing the Fatherland’: Latvian National Politics in Displaced Persons Camps after the Second World War....Pages 48-66
The Quaker Internationalist Tradition in Displaced Persons Camps, 1945–48....Pages 67-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Remaking Soviet Society: the Filtration of Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944–49....Pages 89-116
Dirt, Disease and Disorder: Population Re-placement in Postwar Leningrad and the ‘Danger’ of Social Contamination....Pages 117-139
The Repatriation of Armenians to Soviet Armenia, 1945–49....Pages 140-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Ukrainian-Polish Population Transfers, 1944–46: Moving in Opposite Directions....Pages 165-187
To Pacify, Populate and Polonise: Territorial Transformations and the Displacement of Ethnic Minorities in Communist Poland, 1944–49....Pages 188-209
Population Displacement and Regional Reconstruction in Postwar Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia....Pages 210-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Locating Estonia: Perspectives from Exile and the Homeland....Pages 231-254
Violent Peacetime: Reconceptualising Displacement and Resettlement in the Soviet-East European Borderlands after the Second World War....Pages 255-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-276