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Katyn and the Soviet massacre of 1940 : truth, justice and memory / George Sanford.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 20.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203447048
  • 0203447042
  • 9781134303007
  • 1134303009
  • 9781134302956
  • 1134302959
  • 9781134302994
  • 1134302991
  • 9780415545945
  • 0415545943
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Katyn and the Soviet massacre of 1940.DDC classification:
  • 940.54/7247/0899185 22
LOC classification:
  • D804.S65 S33 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 15.70
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Poland and Russia -- 2. The Sovietisation of East Poland -- 3. The Stalinist terror and prisoner of war system -- 4. The indoctrination, screening/investigation and selection processes -- 5. Course, mechanisms and technology of the massacre -- 6. The struggle for historical truth -- 7. The management and control of the truth about the 1940 massacre -- 8. Soviet and Polish communist control of the truth about Katyn : the conflict with national memory -- 9. Conclusion : closure of the 1940 Soviet massacre issue.
Summary: Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 - one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War - this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.

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1. Poland and Russia -- 2. The Sovietisation of East Poland -- 3. The Stalinist terror and prisoner of war system -- 4. The indoctrination, screening/investigation and selection processes -- 5. Course, mechanisms and technology of the massacre -- 6. The struggle for historical truth -- 7. The management and control of the truth about the 1940 massacre -- 8. Soviet and Polish communist control of the truth about Katyn : the conflict with national memory -- 9. Conclusion : closure of the 1940 Soviet massacre issue.

Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 - one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War - this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.

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