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39 Probs. Communism 106 (1990)
The Destruction of East-Central Europe, 1939-41

handle is hein.journals/probscmu39 and id is 686 raw text is: The Destruction of East-Central The Desrootion of Es-Central Europe, 1939-41 Robert Blobaum ERW N OBERLANDER, Ed. H ier-Stalin Pakt 1939: Das Ende Ostritteleuropas? (The Hitler- Stalin Pact of 1939: The End of East-Central Europe?). Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1989. JAN T, GROSS. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine arnd Western Belorussia. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1988, HISTORY, it seemed, had come full circle in the autumn of 1989- The re- cent resurfacing of East-Central Eu- rope on the world's politica map coincided with the anniversary of a treaty between two totalitarian re- gimes whose collaboration had brought about the region s devas- Robert Blobaum is Associate Pro- fessor and Director of Graduate Studies in History at West Virginia University (Morgantown). H e is the author of FeLiks Dzierzynski and the SDKPiL: A Study of the Origins of Polish Communism (1984) and, more recently, of articles on the Revolution of 1905 in the west em borderlands of the Russian Empire. KAROL LISZEWSK. Wojna polsko-sowiecka 1939 r (The Pol sh-Soviet War of 1939), 2nd ed, London, Polska Fundacla Kulturna, 1988- Zbrodnia katyriska w swietle dokumentow (The Katyn Crime in Light of the Documents), 13th ed, London, Gryf, 1989. ANTHONY READ and DAVID FISHER Hitler, Stalin and the NaziSoviet Pact 1939 -1941. New York and London, W. W. Norton and Company, 1988. taton 50 years earlier. The Nazi-So- viet Noraggression Pact of August 23, 1939. with its secret protocols and division of East-Central Europe into spheres of influence and occu- pation. may have been binding on its cynica signator es for less than two years, but its v ctims would be counted in terms of generations. The centra question posed by Erwin OberlAnder in the title of his edited volume of essays devoted to the Nazi-Soviet Pact has been an- swered by the revolutions of 1989. The Pact was not the last word on East-Central Europe. Indeed, in a region that was subsequently domi- nated by the Soviet Union, for de- cades the Pact was not a word at all, but nstead one of the largest bank spots of an officially-administered and interpreted history. The post- war Soviet leadersh p, not surpris- ingly, refused to permit an open dis- cussion of the Pact or ts d rect and indirect consequences. Yet, even thIs most gaping of memory ho es, though covered with denials, disin- formation, and dialect cal mater al- ism. could not hide the ful and ac- tive Soviet participation in criminal conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against hu- manity from 1939 to 1941.' Since Mikha Gorbachev's pub- lic pronouncement of February 1987 encouraging frankness and new thinking about Soviet history,2 much in the way of historical recla- mation has been accomplished. Yet, Soviet historians, and Gorba- A' li 5010 12'11 l l 01 5, , meP1 4 lld~e e n ( h 9Th n co b'won th So 01Ont W, N 1120 )00U 'mpc.1)ntdO.eheNu , r 106

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