Set: The NKVD “Polish Operation”
Discover one of the most silenced crimes of the twentieth century from three complementary perspectives!
The Mieroszewski Centre presents a unique set of three key publications devoted to the NKVD’s “Polish Operation” – one of the most extensive and, at the same time, one of the longest-forgotten repressive actions of the Great Terror. This is a fundamental source of knowledge about the logic of a totalitarian system and about the fate of Poles living in the USSR in the 1930s.
In one place you receive a complete set of materials – from analyses of the origins of the terror, through NKVD documents, to moving individual stories of people whose lives were shattered by a single signature of an NKVD officer. The set includes the most recent research findings of historians from Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and the United States.
These are three complementary volumes which – when read together – create the most comprehensive account of the NKVD’s “Polish Operation” currently available.
The set includes:
1. The NKVD “Polish Operation” 1937–1938 against the Background of Repression in the Byelorussian SSR (Documents)
A unique source volume containing documents from Belarusian and Polish archives as well as eyewitness testimonies. It reveals the scale and mechanisms of the repression, which affected almost the entire Polish community in Soviet Belarus.
- Editors: Prof. Aleksander Smalianczuk, Dr Anatol Vialiki, Dr Maciej Wyrwa
- Translation: Ewa Rybarska, Mirosława Łuksza
- Number of pages: 484
2. The NKVD “Polish Operation” 1937–1938. Restoring Memory of the Crime
A comprehensive academic study analysing the origins of the terror, the political background of the crime, the fate of women and children, and the execution sites. The volume combines broad historical analyses with poignant stories of individual victims.
- Editors: Dr Paweł Libera, Dr Maciej Wyrwa
- Number of pages: 511
3. In the Shadow of the “Polish Operation”. Volume 1. The Victims
(The first part of a two-volume project devoted to the repressions in Soviet Ukraine.)
This publication uncovers the fates of individuals – Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and Jews – whose lives were destroyed by decisions of the NKVD. Arrest warrants, protocols and archival materials from Ukraine reveal the tragedy experienced by thousands of families.
- Editors: Dr Jana Prymaczenko, Dr Łukasz Adamski
- Translation: Robert Śmigielski
- Number of pages: L + 661
Hundreds of pages of original protocols, three mutually complementary volumes, and a key resource for researchers and enthusiasts of twentieth-century history — now available in a single, carefully curated set. This collection allows readers to comprehend the scale, logic and human cost of one of the greatest crimes of the twentieth century.
NOTE: The set is available only while stocks last.