INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “DEPORTATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION: HISTORY, TRAUMA AND MEMORY”

The international scientific conference entitled “Deportations in the Soviet Union: history, trauma and memory” was held on June 6, 2024 in Warsaw (Poland). It was organized by the Institute of Political Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Juliusz Mieroszewskich Dialogue Center.

The directors of these institutions, Professor Grzegorz Motyka and Doctor of Political Sciences Ernest Vycyshkiewicz, congratulated the participants and emphasized the importance of continuing the study of the painful problems of the past, which are kept silent in modern Russia.

In addition to Polish and Ukrainian scientists, researchers from Latvia, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as probably the most authoritative researcher of Soviet deportations, Pavel Polyan, who currently lives in Germany, were invited to participate in the conference.

The conference opened with an introductory speech by Professor Wojciech Matersky, who analyzed the history of deportations in European and other countries. Issues related to deportations to Central and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus were discussed at three meetings. It was also about Central Asia as a place where the deportees were.

During the conference (Photo by Y. Shapoval)

As part of the conference, a discussion was organized on the understudied aspects of deportations. The main researcher of the Department of Theory and History of Political Science of our Institute, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yuriy Shapoval took part in this discussion.

A discussion on understudied aspects of deportations
From left to right: Professor Grzegorz Hrytsyuk (Poland), Professor Hranush Kharat’yan (Armenia), Professor Ziyabek Kabuldinov (Kazakhstan), Pavel Polyan (Germany), Yuriy Shapoval (Ukraine)