The Katyn massacre and Polish-Soviet relations, 1941-43

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Sanford, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248034374     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009406058676     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. For the classic examination of all these aspects which marked the limits of what could definitely be established before the appearance of the post-1990 Soviet documentation see J.K. Zawodny, Death in the Forest. The story of the Katyn Forest Massacre (London 1971)
2. For the latter see Documents on Polish-Soviet Relations. Vol. 1, 1939-1943 (London 1961), hereafter DPSR
3. Louis FitzGibbon, Unpitied and Unknown. Katyn - Bologoye - Dergachi (London 1975)
4. Allen Paul, Katyń. Stalin's Massacre and the Seeds of Polish Resurrection (Annapolis, MD 1991) is a transitional 'bottom-up' study
5. Gerd Kaiser, Katyn. Das Staatsverbrechen - das Staatsgeheimnis (Berlin 2002) reproduces the new material
6. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 86
7. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 105
8. Wojciech Materski (ed.), Z archiwów sowieckich. Vol. I, Polscy jeńcy wojenni w ZSRR, 1939-1941 (Warsaw 1992), 76-82
9. Foreign Relations of the United States (Washington, DC 1956-63), hereafter FRUS, 1941,1, 217-18
10. KDZ, vol. 3, no. 198
11. Anita Prazmowska, Britain and Poland, 1939-1943. The Betrayed Ally (Cambridge 1995)
12. John Coutouvidis and Jaime Reynolds, Poland, 1939-1947 (Leicester 1986)
13. George Kacewitch, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the Polish Government in Exile (1939-1945) (The Hague 1979)
14. Jan Karski, The Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1939 (Lanham, MD 1985)
15. Natalia Lebiediewa, '60 lat fałszowania i zatajania historii zbrodni Katyńskiej' in Marek Tarczyński (ed.), Zbrodnia Katyńska po 60 latach (Warsaw 2000), 105
16. Zbrodnia katyńska w świetle dokumentów (London 12 edns 1948-89), 74-6
17. Józef Czapski, Na nieludzkiej ziemi (London 1969), 141-5
18. KDZ, vol. 3, no. 381
19. Sopruneko to Merkulov, 12 September 1941, KDZ, vol. 3, no. 202
20. DPSR, vol. 1, 173-4
21. KDZ, vol. 3, no. 208
22. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin, op. cit., 105
23. Kot, op. cit., 106-16
24. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 151
25. DPSR, vol. 1, 230
26. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 159
27. FRUS, 1942, vol. III, 100-4
28. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 161
29. Sikorski to Churchill, 17 December 1941, DPSR, vol. 1
30. For studies of Sikorski during the Polish People's Republic (PRL) see Walentyna Korpalska, WŁadysŁaw Eugeniusz Sikorski. Biografia polityczna (WrocŁaw 1981)
31. Olgierd Terlecki, GeneraŁ Sikorski (Kraków, 2 vols, 1981-3)
32. Roman Wapiński, Generał Sikorski (Warsaw 1978)
33. For favourable studies of Sikorski's pro-British and Federalist wartime aims by personal and ministerial associates, Marian Kukiel, Generał Władysław Sikorski - żonłierz i macombining ogonekż stanu Polski Walczacombining ogonekcej (London 1970)
34. Karol Popiel, Generał Sikorski w mojej pamiecombining ogonekci (London 1987)
35. KDZ, vol. 3, no. 223
36. Wojciech Materski (ed.), Armia Polska w ZSSR, 1941-1942 (Warsaw 1992), 41-5
37. Materski (ed.), Armia Polska w ZSSR, op. cit
38. Materski (ed.), Polscy jeńcy wojenni w ZSSR, op. cit., 95
39. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 177; Raczyński note 49/Sow/42 of 28 January 1942, Hoover Institution, Eastern Archive, hereafter HIEA AAN
40. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 192; Bogolomov note MC57 of 13 March 1942, HIEA AAN
41. Beria to Stalin, 14 March 1942, KDZ, vol. 3, no. 230
42. DPSR, vol. 1, 307
43. Cf. Polityka (Warsaw), 1992, no. 40, 13
44. Beria to Stalin, 4 April 1942, KDZ, vol. 3, 542
45. Beria to Stalin, 24 July 1942, Armia Polska w ZSSR, op. cit., 95
46. DPSR, vol. 1, 426
47. Cf. Piotr Żaroń, Kierunek wschodni w strategii wojskowo-politycznej gen. Władysława Sikorskiego, 1940-1943 (Warsaw 1988)
48. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 291
49. DPSR, vol. 1, no. 305
50. Soviet Information Bureau communiqué of 15 April 1940, DPSR, vol. 1, no. 306
51. Minister of National Defence communiqué, DPSR, vol. 1, no. 307
52. Alexandra Kwiatkowska-Viatteau, 1940-1943, Katyn. L'Armée Polonaise assassinée (Brussels 1982), 22-3
53. DPSR, vol. 1, nos 314, 319
54. Stalin telegram to Churchill, 21 April 1943, PRO FO371/34569 C484569/258/55; DPSR, vol. 1, no. 310
55. Churchill to Stalin, 24 April 1943, DPSR, vol. 1, no. 312
56. For the latter see Robert Szymczak, The Unquiet Dead. The Katyn Forest Massacre as an Issue in American Diplomacy and Politics (Doctor of Arts Dissertation, Carnegie-Mellon University 1980. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International no 4012, 1985)
57. Gabriel Kolko, The Politics of War. Allied Diplomacy and the World Crisis of 1943-1945 (London 1969), 99-104