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Volume 30. The Tragedy of Bukovyna: Soviet Forced Evictions of the Population in 1940-1953

Editor & Compiler Vasyl Mustetsa
Co-Editor Dmytro Prodanyk
Editorial board H. Papakin (co-chairman), M. Posivnych (co-chairman), H. Boriak, I. Patryliak, Yu. Shapoval, V. Viatrovych
Funder DMYTRO & MARIA HULEI EDUCATIONAL FUND THE FUND SUPPORTS EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS, RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS FOCUSED ON THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND UKRAINE'S STRUGGLE TO ACHIVE INDEPENDENCE
Publication Year 2023
ISBN (Ukraine) 978-966-2105-86-5
Pages Count 920
Hard Copy Price $35 USD
Summary

The collection includes documents from the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Department of Archival Support of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Chernivtsi Region, the State Archive of the Chernivtsi Region, which focuses on the practice of forced evictions by the Soviet authorities in 1940-1953 as a tool to combat the insurgent movement and to deal with the political, social, economic and religious problems in their own interests. The released archival materials make it possible to single out the main eviction actions of the Soviet regime in Bukovina and the peculiarities of their preparation and implementation. The materials also make it possible to establish the names of repressed and repatriated persons as well as employees of the Soviet penal authorities involved in the violent evictions of residents of the region. An attempt was made to calculate the number of people forcibly evicted from the territory of the Chernivtsi region, against the background of the general situation in the western regions of Ukraine.