Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45-1948/49

"Ausser der Frage des politischen Systems beleuchten die abgedruckten Dokumente und die einleitenden Ausfuhrungen auch die Art und den Umfang der sowjetischen Inanspruchnahme wirtschaftlicher Ressourcen einschliesslich zwangsweise geleisteter Arbeit, die Behandlung der jeweiligen Kriegsgefangenen und repressive Massnahmen der sowjetischen Militarbehoerden. Dabei ergeben sich stellenweise neue Einblicke. Den insgesamt 75 Dokumenten - 24 uber Rumanien, 16 uber Ungarn und die restlichen 35 uber OEsterreich - geht eine umfangreiche Einleitung der vier Herausgeber voraus, die zuerst generell die sowjetische Sudosteuropa-Politik im Ost-West-Kontext und dann das Vorgehen gegenuber jeweils den einzelnen Landern behandelt. Diese Ausfuhrungen sind knapp, aber ungewoehnlich klar und prazise - die weitaus beste Zusammenfassung, die es zu diesem Thema gibt. Auch deswegen ist der Dokumentenband zeithistorischen Fachleuten wie Laien unbedingt zur Lekture zu empfehlen." * Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas *

Csaba Bekes is Founding Director of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest, Hungary. He is Professor of History, Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of International Studies. Laszlo Borhi is the Peter A. Kadas Chair and associate professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Peter Ruggenthaler is Research Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut fur Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Graz, Austria

Foreword Introduction Documents Romania DOCUMENT No. 1: Memorandum on Atrocities Committed by Soviet Troops, September 12, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 2: Note on Soviet Abuses, September 13, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 3: Romanian-Soviet Memorandum regarding Romanian Participation in the War against Germany and Hungary, September 28, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 4: Report No. 30.001 from the Intelligence Service (SI) of the War Ministry Presented to the Minister of War, General Mihail Racovitza, on the Surveillance of the SI's Activities and Personnel by Special Soviet Authorities, October 4, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 5: Romanian Note to the ACC regarding the Implementation of the Armistice Agreement, November 11, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 6: Report on the Interrogation of Intelligence Officers by SMERSH regarding Romanian Intelligence Activities on the Eastern Front, October 12, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 7: Letter by the Deputy Chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Romania, Lieutenant- General V.P. Vinogradov, to the President of the Council of Ministers, Army Corps Adjutant General Constantin Sanatescu,regarding the Armistice Agreement, November 2, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 8: Note by Marshal Rodion Malinovskii on the Administration of Northern Transylvania, November 20, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 9: Order of the Allied Control Commission in Romania on Relations between the Red Army and the Romanian Authorities, November 29, 1944 DOCUMENT No. 10: Note regarding Conduct of Police and Gendarmerie Personnel vis-a-vis Representatives of the Soviet Armed Forces, February 2, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 11: Note by Chief of Staff Army Corps Adjutant General Constantin Sanatescu to Lieutenant-General Vinogradov regarding Disarmament of Romanian Units, March 5, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 12: Report to L.I. Beriya on the Political Situation in Romania, March 5, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 13: Agreement of Economic Cooperation between the Kingdom of Romania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, May 8, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 14: Memorandum of Agreement on Economic Cooperation between the Kingdom of Romania and the USSR, May 8, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 15: Romanian Position on the Establishment of a Joint Romanian-Soviet Timber Company, Undated [1945] DOCUMENT No. 16: Note by General Vinogradov to Minister of Internal Affairs Teohari Georgescu regarding the Quartering of Soviet Troops, December 6, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 17: Meeting of the Council of Ministers regarding the Establishment of the Soviet-Romanian Forestry Company, February 14, 1946 DOCUMENT No. 18: Report of the Meeting between Stalin and the Romanian Communist Party Leaders on the Situation in Romania, April 2-3, 1946, Moscow, April 2-3, 1946 DOCUMENT No. 19: Transcript of Meeting of Romanian-Soviet Commission of Economic Cooperation, January 28, 1947 DOCUMENT No. 20: Aide-memoireDrafted by British Oil Companies Operating in Romania [Excerpt], April 15, 1947 DOCUMENT No. 21: Note regarding Soviet Claims on Formerly German-Owned Insurance Companies, April 1948 DOCUMENT No. 22: Soviet and Romanian Speeches Delivered on the Occasion of Signing Agreements on Joint Soviet-Romanian Companies in Bucharest, November 1, 1948 DOCUMENT No. 23: Founding the Soviet-Romanian Film Company, Sovrom Film, August 9, 1947 DOCUMENT No. 24: Transcript of CC Romanian Workers' Party Session regarding the Fate of Sovroms [Excerpts], March 7, 1953 Hungary DOCUMENT No. 25: Letter by the Archbishop of Szatmar to the Apostolic Nuncio on Soviet Deportations from Hungarian Territory, January 25, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 26: Letter by the Lord Lieutenant of Szabolcs and Ung Counties to the Minister of Interior on the Roundup of Civilians, January 25, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 27: Letter to the Foreign Ministry on Behalf of an Individual Deported by the Soviets, Undated [1945] DOCUMENT No. 28: Letter to the Foreign Ministry regarding the Soviet Deportation of Civilians, Undated [1945] DOCUMENT No. 29: Report to the Sixth Hungarian Army Headquarters on Soviet Deportations, May 24, 1945 DOCUMENT No. 30: Note regarding Sovi