KEITH SWORD is Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. His main interests are the modern history of Poland and migration from the Polish lands in recent times, as well as political and economic change in east-Central Europe. His other publications include The Formation of the Polish Community in Great Britain, 1939-1950 (with N. Davies and J. Ciechanowski), The Times Guide to Eastern Europe (editor) and The Soviet Takeover of the Polish Eastern Provinces, 1939-1941 (editor).

• List of Maps - Preface - Preface to the 1996 Reprint - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - The Mass Movement of Poles to the USSR, 1939-1941 - The Sikorski-Maisky Pact of 1941 and the 'Amnesty' for Poles confined on Soviet Territory - The Evacuation of Poles from the USSR during 1942 - The Relief Effort on behalf of 'amnestied' Poles - The Role of the Polish Communists in the USSR, 1943-1945 - Renewed Deportations from Polish Territory, 1944-1945 - Repatriation from the Soviet Union, 1944-1948 - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index