This new volume, by a team of international scholars, explores aspects of population displacement and statehood at a crucial juncture in modern European history, when the entire continent took on the aspect of a ’laboratory atop a mass graveyard’ (Tomas Masaryk).
Innehållsförteckning
List of Maps, List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1. War, Population Discplacement and State Formation in the Russian Borderlands, 1914-1924; 2. Latvian Refugees and the Latvian Nation State During and After World War One; 3. In Search of National Support: Belarusian Refugees in World War One and the People’s Republic of Belarus; 4. In Search of a Native Realsm: The Return of World War One Refugees to Lithuania, 1918-1924; 5. Population Displacement and Citizenship in Poland, 1918-24; 6. The Repatriation of Polish Citizens from Soviet Ukraine to Poland in 1921-2; 7. ’Sybiraki’: Siberian and Manchurian Returnees in Independent Poland; 8. Refugees in the Urals Region, 1917-1925; 9. Armenia: the ’Nationalization’, Internationalization and Representation of the Refugee Crisis; Conclusions: On Living in a ’New Country’
Om författaren
Nick Baron is a Lecturer in History at the University of Nottingham, UK. He works on Russian and East European history and historical geography.
Peter Gatrell is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK. His main research and teaching interests are in the field of modern European social, economic and cultural history, with a particular focus on modern Russia.