1st Edition

The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 A Sourcebook

Edited By Alexander Motyl, Ksenya Kiebuzinski Copyright 2017
432 Pages
by Routledge

After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed a staggering number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine-somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000-in the space of eight days, in one of the greatest atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet state. Yet the Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 is largely unknown. This sourcebook aims to change that,... Read more
Introduction, Biography, Scholarly Literature, Soviet, German, Polish, and British Documents ,Newspaper Reports, Survivors' and Eyewitness Accounts, Supplementary Material, Biographies, Glossary, Works Cited

Biography

Prof. Alexander J. Motyl , Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, author of numerous works on Soviet and post-Soviet politics.
Dr. Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Head, Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre, University of Toronto.