Abstract (may include machine translation)
Katyn - the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 - has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Cambridge |
Publisher | Polity |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7456-5577-2 0-7456-5577-7 |
State | Published - 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Historiography
- Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940