UID:
edocfu_9959242714602883
Format:
1 online resource (616 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-35166-4
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0-300-15185-3
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9786612351662
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1-282-08844-0
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9786612088445
Series Statement:
Annals of communism
Content:
The 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 were held in three special NKVD camps and executed at three different sites in spring 1940, of which the one in Katyn Forest is the most famous. Another 7,300 prisoners held in NKVD jails in Ukraine and Belarus were also shot at this time, although many others disappeared without trace. The murder of these Poles is among the most monstrous mass murders undertaken by any modern government. Three leading historians of the NKVD massacres of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn, Kharkov, and Tver-now subsumed under "Katyn"-present 122 documents selected from the published Russian and Polish volumes coedited by Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski. The documents, with introductions and notes by Anna M. Cienciala, detail the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up, the admission of the truth, and the Katyn question in Soviet/Russian-Polish relations up to the present.
Note:
Translated from Polish and Russian; documents selected from 5 previously published volumes of Katyn documents (2 in Polish and 3 in Russian).
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Prisoners of an undeclared war, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940 -- Extermination, March-June 1940 -- Katyn and its echoes, 1940 to the present.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-10851-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.12987/9780300151855
