1st Edition
Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Gulag Deportation of Czechoslovak Citizens to the USSR and the Negotiation for their Repatriation, 1945-1953
By Milada Polišenská
Copyright 2016
440 Pages
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Central European University Press
After the entry of the Red Army into Czechoslovak territory in 1945, Red Army authorities began to arrest and deport Czechoslovak citizens to labor camps in the Soviet Union. The regions most affected were Eastern and South Slovakia and Prague. The Czechoslovak authorities repeatedly requested a halt to the deportations and that the deported Czechoslovaks be returned immediately. It took a long... Read more
INTRODUCTION, PART ONE: POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY I. CZECHOSLOVAK-SOVIET REPATRIATION NEGOTIATIONS, II. SCREENINGS AND TRANSPORTS, Conclusion, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Archival, and Other Sources, Index of Names and Places
Biography
Milada Polišenská is a Czech professor and researcher specialized in history of diplomacy and international relations, and modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe. Currently she works in Prague as Provost of the Anglo-American University.
