''Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR'' is a historical research book by

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(2001), published by the

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. It is the first comprehensive study of all massive-scale

forced migrations within the Soviet Union From 1930 to 1952, the government of the Soviet Union, on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of various groups. These actions may be classified ...

. The book is based on published materials and archival data made public. It contains a large number of summary tables.

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External links

The book online
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2001 non-fiction books History books about the Soviet Union Books about Soviet repression Forced migration in the Soviet Union 21st-century history books Works about post–World War II forced migrations Works about internal migrations {{USSR-hist-book-stub