This edited collection presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in East Central Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R.

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Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Dorottya Sziszkoszné-Halász: The Evolution of a Massacre: The Uniqueness of Kamenets-Podolsk - Miklós Horváth: 'We Are Dragged Off to Siberia!' Deported Hungarians under Soviet Duress, 1956-1957 - Artan R. Hoxha: First 'Circulating' and Later 'Educating': Enver Hoxha and the Disempowerment of the Techno-Bureaucratic Establishment in Communist Albania - Heléna Huhák: Hungarian Jewish Women in the Sömmerda Forced Labour Camp: Narratives on the Woman's Body - Ilnytskyi Vasyl/Starka Volodymyr: Everyday Life of Forced Immigrants on the Territory of Eastern Galicia under the Conditions of the Soviet Totalitarian Regime from 1939 to 1941 - Martin-Oleksandr Kisly: Deportation of Crimean Tatars: Constructing the Myth of the Lost Homeland - Vladimer Luarsabishvili: Operation 'Thunderstorm': Deportation to the Kazakh SSR in 1951 (Based on Unpublished Archive Materials of the Former KGB Archive of the Georgian SSR) - Diana-Mihaela P unoiu: Ambiguous Belongings: The 1940 Refugees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in Oltenia - Daniela Popescu/Manuela Marin: Creating the Enemy: Roma People Between Discrimination and Deportation. The Romanian Case - Victor Shnirelman: Mosaic of a Social Memory: How the North Caucasians Recall the Deportation - László Somogyi: Dealing with 'The Domestic Enemy' - Internment of National Minorities in Hungarian Camps During the First World War - Olga Stefan: Vapniarka: Forms of Antifascist Resistance in the Camp of Death - András Szécsényi: Deportation Routes to Bergen-Belsen from Hungary, 1944-1945: Personal Narratives of Hungarian Jews - Lyubomira Valcheva-Nundloll: Germans or Bulgarians? The German Population in Bulgaria Between Exclusion and Inclusion at the End of the Second World War - Vlasis Vlasidis/Areti Makri/Aikaterini Yannoukakou: From Greek Macedonia to Asia Minor: Deportation or Forced Migration of Muslims Based on the Lausanne Peace Treaty - Notes on Contributors - List of Index Terms.