Médiation et assistance : les anciens réprimés polonais dans l’URSS en guerre

Catherine Gousseff (1)

1 CERCEC - Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen

This article traces the history of the organized aid toward the hundreds of thousands of Poles who had been deported by the soviet authorities after the annexation of Poland Eastern's territories in 1939. They stayed, for the most part, in Siberia's and Central Asia's periphery until their return to Poland after the War. The liberty of action granted by the stalinist government to the polish representatives makes this history very untypical. Its development follows very closely the ups and downs in the relations between the USRR and Poland during the War. It unfolds in different acts, ultimately demonstrating the role held by the humanitarian aid in the creation of the pro-Soviet ally that post-War Poland would become

Mots clés: soviet-polish relationships; World War II; humanitarian help; deportation; repatriation

Domaines: Histoire

Catherine Gousseff. Médiation et assistance : les anciens réprimés polonais dans l’URSS en guerre. Connexe, les espaces postcommunistes en question(s), 2015, L’URSS et la Russie contemporaine face à l’humanitaire, 1 (1), pp.75-95. ⟨halshs-01250137⟩