Forced migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950 / edited by Alfred J. Rieber.

Edited selections from papers originally presented at the Conference on Population Transfers, Deportations and Resettlements in Central and Eastern Europe, held in September 1996, in Budapest, Hungary.

"This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'Forced Migration in Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1950' of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics (ISSN 1352-3279) 16/1 & 2 (March/June 2000) published by Frank Cass"--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Repressive population transfers in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe : a historical overview / Alfred J. Rieber -- The deportation of the Polish population to the USSR, 1939-41 / N.S. Lebedeva -- The Polish-Czechoslovak conflict over Teschen : the problem of resettling Poles and position of the USSR / T.V. Volokitina -- The Catholic church and deportations of ethnic Germans from the Czech lands / Emilia Hrabovec -- The fate of Hungarian minorities in Slovakia after the Second World War : resettlement and re-Slovakization : Moscow's position / G.P. Murashko -- Migration of the Germans after the Second World War : political and psychological aspects / A. F.Noskova -- "Make the Germans do it" : the refugee problem in the American zone of post-war Germany / Sylvia Schraut -- The integration of deportees into the society of the Federal Republic of Germany / Thomas Grosser -- Refugees and expellees in the Soviet zone of Germany : political and social problems of their integration, 1945-50 / Michael Schwartz -- Ethnography of an encounter : reactions to refugees in post-war Germany and Russian migrants after the reunification--context, analogies and changes / Susanne Spülbeck.