Pavel Polian
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Pavel Markovich Polian is a Russia
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n geographer
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, historian
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 and sociologist, Doctor
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 of Geographical Sciences with the Institute of Geography (1998) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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. He authored over 300 publications. He is famous for his researches of history and geography of the forced migrations
Human migration
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. He is also a well-known expert in literature, especially in Osip Mandelshtam's works.

Brief bibliography

  • "Жертвы двух диктатур. Остарбайтеры и военнопленные в Третьем Рейхе и их репатриация. - М.: Ваш выбор ЦИРЗ, 1996. - 442 pp. (Victims of Two Dictatorships. Ostarbeiters and POW in Third Reich and Their Repatriation)
  • Westarbeiters. Interned Gemans in the USSR (Prehistory, History, Geography). - "Вестарбайтеры". Интернированные немцы в СССР (предыстория, история, география) / Учебное пособие для спецкурса. Ставрополь—Москва: Изд-во СГУ, 1999. 48 pp; Вестарбайтеры. Интернированные немцы на советских стройках // Родина. 1999. № 9. pp. 21—25; (the title is a pun with "Ostarbeiter")
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