Pavel Markovich Polian (; born 31 August 1952), pseudonym: Pavel Nerler, is a Russian

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and

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, and

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of Geographical Sciences with the Institute of Geography (1998) of the

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. He authored over 300 publications and is most known for his research on the history and geography of forced migrations.Polian's profile
from the book ''Against Their Will'' on the site of ''

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'' Polian is director of the Mandelshtam Center at the

National Research University Higher School of Economics HSE University (), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics () is a public research university founded in 1992 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Along with its main campus located in the capital, the university ...

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 Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

and Their Repatriation'') * ''Westarbeiters. Interned Germans 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. No. 9. pp. 21–25; (the title is a pun with "

Ostarbeiter ' (, "Eastern worker") was a Nazi German designation for foreign slave workers gathered from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labor in Germany during World War II. The Germans started deporting civilians at the beginning ...

") * ** English translation: *''Свитки из пепла. Еврейская “зондеркоммандо” в Аушвице-Биркенау и ее летописцы'' (''Scrolls from the Ashes. Jewish "

Sonderkommando ''Sonderkommandos'' (, ) were Extermination through labor, work units made up of Nazi Germany, German Nazi death camp prisoners. They were composed of prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the di ...

" at

Auschwitz-Birkenau Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d ...

and its Chroniclers''), 2014 * (editor, with N.L. Pobol
''Сталинские депортации, 1928–1953''
*''Обреченные погибнуть. Судьба советских военнопленных-евреев во Второй мировой войне. Воспоминания и документы'' *''Отрицание отрицания, или Битва под Аушвицем: дебаты о демографии и геополитике холокоста''

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