| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 561 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Annals of communism |
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Annals of Communism.
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| Contents |
Prisoners of an undeclared war, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940 -- Extermination, March-June 1940 -- Katyn and its echoes, 1940 to the present |
| Summary |
In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-536) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from Polish and Russian; documents selected from 5 previously published volumes of Katyn documents (2 in Polish and 3 in Russian) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940 -- Sources
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Massaker.
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Russia (Federation) -- Katynʹ
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Katyn.
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Katyn -- Massaker.
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| Genre/Form |
Sources
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Quelle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cienciala, Anna M., editor.
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Lebedeva, N. S. (Natalʹi︠a︡ Sergeevna), editor
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Materski, Wojciech, editor.
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| LC no. |
2007005082 |
| ISBN |
9780300151855 |
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0300151853 |
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1282351664 |
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9781282351660 |
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9786612351662 |
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6612351667 |
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1282088440 |
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9781282088443 |
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9786612088445 |
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6612088443 |
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