Pavel Markovich Polian, pseudonym: Pavel Nerler (russian: Павел Маркович Полян; born 31 August 1952) is a Russian
geographer
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and
historian
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, and
Doctor
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of Geographical Sciences with the Institute of Geography (1998) of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
. He authored over 300 publications and is most known for his research on the history and geography of forced
migrations.
[Polian's profile]
from the book ''Against Their Will'' on the site of ''Memorial
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Polian is director of the
Mandelshtam Center at the
.
Brief bibliography
* "Жертвы двух диктатур. Остарбайтеры и военнопленные в Третьем Рейхе и их репатриация. – М.: Ваш выбор ЦИРЗ, 1996. – 442 pp. (''Victims of Two Dictatorships. Ostarbeiters and POW in
Third Reich
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
and Their Repatriation'')
* ''Westarbeiters. Interned Germans in the USSR (Prehistory, History, Geography)''. – "Вестарбайтеры". Интернированные немцы в СССР (предыстория, история, география) / Учебное пособие для спецкурса. Ставрополь—Москва: Изд-во СГУ, 1999. 48 pp; Вестарбайтеры. Интернированные немцы на советских стройках // Родина. 1999. No. 9. pp. 21–25; (the title is a pun with "
Ostarbeiter
:
' (, "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. The Germans started deporting civilians at the beginning ...
")
*
** English translation:
*''Свитки из пепла. Еврейская “зондеркоммандо” в Аушвице-Биркенау и ее летописцы'' (''Scrolls from the Ashes. Jewish "
Sonderkommando" at
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
and its Chroniclers''), 2014
*''Сталинские депортации, 1928–1953''
*''Обреченные погибнуть. Судьба советских военнопленных-евреев во Второй мировой войне. Воспоминания и документы''
*''Отрицание отрицания, или Битва под Аушвицем: дебаты о демографии и геополитике холокоста''
References
Russian geographers
Living people
Russian Jews
Russian sociologists
20th-century Russian historians
1952 births
Historical geographers
Moscow State University alumni
21st-century Russian historians
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