75 lat temu na Ukrainie... O represjach stalinizmu wobec Polaków w latach 30. XX wieku

• Authors: Henryk Stroński

Title variants

EN

75 ago in Ukraine ... About the Repressions of Stalinism against the Polish Population in the 1930s

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Stalinist repressions against the Polish population, living in Ukraine for centuries, are known for its wide scale and cruelty as for lawless actions and terror. Around 150-200,000 Poles, which constituted about 30% of all the Polish population in Ukraine, underwent different forms of repressions during Stalinism. In fact, the Poles from Ukraine went first on the list of the peoples deported, which further turned out to be typical of the Soviet totalitarianism. The author describes the scale and deportation process of the Polish population from Ukra- inian western border regions to the eastern ones, up to Kazakhstan. The Stalinist repressions reached their peak during the years of the Great Terror, 1937-1938. NKVD repressions exemplified typical ethnocide, with a Polish origin of victims as the main reason. Stalin's secret police started the wide-scale provocations, fabricating a dossier of the so-called “Po- lish Military Organization”.

Keywords

EN

stalinist repressions; Ukraine; Great Terror

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 89-121

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Henryk Stroński

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128