Against Their Will (Polyan book)

Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR

Book cover: Joseph Stalin's arm, holding his famous pipe, casually herds people
Author	Pavel Polyan
Publication date	2001

Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR is a historical research book by Pavel Polyan (2001), published by the Memorial society. It is the first comprehensive study of all massive-scale forced migrations within the Soviet Union. The book is based on published materials and archival data made public. It contains numerous summary tables.

The book covers forced migrations of Soviet citizens within the Soviet Union, as well as forced migrations of foreign citizens into the Soviet Union. Polyan systematized previously published sources, scattered over various publications, and supplemented them with archival materials. The book uncovered the logic of these migrations.^[1]