The "Ukrainian Problem" and the Process of the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland Cover Image

ポーランド共産政権支配確立過程におけるウクライナ人問題
The "Ukrainian Problem" and the Process of the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland

Author(s): Jun Yoshioka
Subject(s): History
Published by: Slavic Research Center

Summary/Abstract: After World War II Poland experienced a drastic change in the ethno-national composition of the state as a result of the exclusion of national minorities following the shift of her frontiers. The new Polish-Soviet frontier follows quite closely the so-called Curzon line that was considered as the ethnographical borderline between Poles and Ukrainians. In consequence of this shift of frontiers most Ukrainians, the largest national minority in prewar Poland, found themselves on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, or Soviet Ukraine, while it is estimated that there remained as many as 700,000 Ukrainians on the Polish side. By the summer of 1947, these Ukrainians had been excluded from Polish society. The purpose of this article is to examine how the Ukrainian minority problem was settled in postwar Poland and to demonstrate the decisive role played by the Communists in this settlement.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 67-93
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Japanese