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Borderlands
The Borderlands Region
Themes and Significance
Schedule
Seminar Series
Notes
Questions, Results, Implications
Contacts
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During the tumultuous years from 1939 to 1947, Poland and Ukraine were
situated along a moving line of partition and confrontation between
the Nazi and Soviet empires, with a succession of regime changes. This
geopolitical cataclysm also served as the release mechanism for internal
violence, setting in opposition the Polish, Ukrainian, German, and Jewish
populations. The region comprised an intense laboratory of some of the
most brutal conflicts of twentieth-century Europe; it is also situated
at the crossroads of different historiographical traditions. The politics
of the Nazi occupation on the Eastern front, the genocide of European
Jews, the sovietization of Poland and Ukraine and ethnic cleansing touched
Poles and Ukrainians, who found themselves on the wrong side of each
border, as well as the German and Jewish populations. Each has been
the focus of innovative historical research, which since 1989 has taken
advantage of access to new sources but has also been characterized by
new approaches and interpretations.
The main conceptual challenge of these new developments
is the degree of interdependence of fields of research that until recently
have developed in isolation: Sovietology, the historiography of Nazism
and genocide as well as Polish and Ukrainian history. The sheer complexity
of this set of events and the linguistic diversity of the sources have
long hindered the integration of the history of this region into interpretations
of European history as a whole. Nevertheless, during these years, these
borders of Europe were at the heart of the brutal transformation of
European society during the twentieth century.
This one-day workshop aimed to facilitate the interaction
of scholars representing different historiographic traditions on this
subject, which is both at the periphery of and central to contemporary
history. Les intervenants s’exprimeront en anglais, mais les débats
pourront être en français.
Participants will speak in English, but the discussion
can be in French.
Contacts : Christian Ingrao: ingrao@ihtp.cnrs.fr; Pieter
Lagrou: lagrou@ihtp.cnrs.fr
Schedule
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Session Chair: Henry Rousso (IHTP)
Omer Bartov (Brown University): Introduction
Long-Term, Small-Scale, Multi-Voice: Interethnic Relations on the Local
Level in Buczacz, Ukraine
Longue durée, échelle réduite, pluralité
des voix : les relations interethniques au niveau local à Buczacz
en Ukraine
Jan Thomas Gross (NYU)
Blinded by Social Distance
Aveuglé par la distance sociale
Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
Toleration, Espionage, Genocide: The Volhynia Experiment and the Polish-Soviet
Contest for Ukraine, 1926-1938
Tolérance, espionnage, génocide : l’expérience
de Volhynie et l’épreuve de force polono-soviétique
pour l’Ukraine, 1926-1938
Nicolas Werth (CNRS-Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent)
Soviet Repression (Arrests, Deportations, Executions) in Occupied Western
Ukraine and Western Belorussia, Sept. 1939- June 1941
La répression soviétique (arrestations, déportations,
exécutions) dans la partie occidentale occupée de l’Ukraine
et de la Biélorussie, septembre 1939-juin 1941
Dieter Pohl (Institut für Zeitgeschichte,
Munich)
Occupation, Ethnic Conflicts and Mass Murder in the East of the General
Gouvernement 1941-1944
Occupation, conflits ethniques et meurtre de masse dans l’Est du
Gouvernement général, 1941-1944
Jeffrey Burds (Northeastern University)
"The War within the War". Ethnicity and Occupations in the
German-Occupied East (The Case of Western Ukraine)
"La guerre dans la guerre". Ethnicité et occupations
dans les régions de l’Est occupées par les Allemands
(Le cas de l’Ukraine occidentale)
Catherine Gousseff (CNRS-CMR-EHESS)
The “Return” to Poland of Deported Populations from the Annexed
Territories (1945-1947)
Le "retour" en Pologne des populations déportées
des territoires annexés (1945-1947)
Pieter Lagrou (IHTP) Conclusion
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