Secret note of the Foreign Department of Central Committee of Polish Workers’ Party concerning repatriation problems of Poles from the USSR dated December 5th, 1947 Cover Image

Tajna notatka Wydziału Zagranicznego KC PPR o problemach repatriacyjnych Polaków z ZSRR z 5 grudnia 1947 roku
Secret note of the Foreign Department of Central Committee of Polish Workers’ Party concerning repatriation problems of Poles from the USSR dated December 5th, 1947

Author(s): Wojciech Marciniak
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: repatriation; deportation; resettlement; exile; Polish-Soviet relations; repatriacja; deportacja; przesiedlenie; zesłanie; stosunki polsko-radzieckie

Summary/Abstract: In December of 1947 in Foreign Department of Central Committee of Polish Workers’ Party appeared a note concerning difficulties with repatriation of Poles from the USSR. They concerned mainly relatives of members of the ruling party. The note contains descriptions of many formal problems concerning arrival of Polish citizens from the USSR. The document was created when the question of repatriation in Polish-Soviet relations was in fact frozen. Nonetheless, the problems described in the document prove that repatriation remained important issue for communist party in Poland.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 187-196
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish