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

During the Second World War, the Nazis deported millions of Soviet, Baltic and Polish civilians, soldiers and prisoners of war to Germany. Many others were uprooted within occupied territories. This volume examines the 'violent peacetime' that followed the war, as these displaced persons strove to return home or to flee westwards during a time of territorial changes, the brutal imposition or reassertion of communist power, widespread nationalist resistance, state strategies of socio-ethnic engineering and economic reconstruction, new forms of international humanitarian intervention and emerging Cold War antagonisms. Contributors discuss the politics, personnel, administrative structures and everyday experience of Allied displaced persons camps in Germany; the political 'filtration' and sanitary screening procedures which Soviet repatriates underwent before they were permitted to return to their homes; and governmental arrangements for sorting, classifying and transferring people throughout the contested borderlands. The book pays close attention to how displacement, internment, resettlement and diaspora were experienced by migrants, and how they have been remembered and commemorated. Warlands will fascinate anyone interested in population displacement as state practice and social experience.

Peter Gatrell is Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author most recently of The Making of the Modern Refugee (2013) and Free World? The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956-1963 (2011), and co-editor (with Nick Baron) of Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924 (2004).

Nick Baron is Associate Professor in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is author of Soviet Karelia: Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920-1939 (2007), The King of Karelia: Col P. J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918–1919 (2008) and editor of Nurturing the Nation. Displaced Children, State Ideology and Social Identity in Eastern Europe and the USSR, 1918-1953 (2014).

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Maps and Photos
Abbreviations
1. From 'Homelands' to 'Warlands': Themes, Approaches, Voices; P.Gatrell
PART I: TRANSIT: NATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN POST-WAR DP CAMPS
2. Living in the DP Camp: Lithuanian Refugees in the West, 1944-1954; T.Balkelis
3. 'How those brothers in foreign lands are dividing the fatherland': Latvian National Politics in Displaced Persons Camps after the Second World War; A.Purs
4. The Quaker Internationalist Tradition in Displaced Person Camps 1945-1948; J.Carson
PART II: RETURN: SOVIET POST-WAR RESETTLEMENT PRACTICES AND POPULATION MANAGEMENT
5. Remaking Soviet Society: the Filtration of Returnees from Nazi Germany, 1944-1949; N.Baron
6. Dirt, Disease and Disorder: Population Re-placement in Post-war Leningrad and the 'Danger' of Social Contamination; S.Peeling
7. The Repatriation of Armenians to Soviet Armenia, 1945-1949; J.Laycock
PART III: BORDER CROSSINGS: STATE PRACTICES OF DISPLACEMENT AND NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
8. Ukrainian-Polish Population Transfers, 1944-1946: Moving in Opposite Directions; K.Stadnik
9. To Pacify, Populate and Polonize: Territorial Transformations and the Displacement of Ethnic Minorities in Communist Poland, 1944-1949; K.Zielinski
10. Population Displacement and Regional Reconstruction in Post-War Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia; E.Ochman
PART IV: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY: LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON DISPLACEMENT
11. Locating Estonia: Perspectives from Exile and the Homeland; M.Wulf
12. Violent Peacetime: Reconceptualising Displacement and Resettlement in the Soviet-East European Borderlands after the Second World War; P.Gatrell and N.Baron
Index