Interview with Catherine Goussef, historian (video in french)
For the young nation-state of Ukraine, whose sovereignty is now threatened by russian might, the invasion on 24 february 2022 reawakens the long and difficult story of how its current territory was forged. Catherine Gousseff, a historian and specialist of soviet migration, retraces the history of the ukrainian borders, marked by war and population displacement. For De Facto, she describes the main stages of their formation from the 20th century up to the present day.
To find out more
- Cher P. & Siljak A. (eds.), 2001. Redrawing Nations. Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944–1948, New York, Oxford, Rosman & Littlefield publishers.
- Gatrell P. & Baron N. (eds.), 2009. Warlands. Population Ressetlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945–1950. New York, Palgrave Macmillan
- Gousseff, C., 2015. Échanger les peuples. Le déplacement des minorités aux confins polonais-soviétiques, 1944–1947. Paris, Fayard.
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The author
Catherine Gousseff is a CNRS research director attached to the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC). She is a fellow of CI Migration where she heads the GLOBAL department.
Quote this article
Catherine Gousseff “What does the history of the Ukraine-Poland border tell us about the ongoing war?” in : Antonin Durand, Thomas Chopard, Catherine Gousseff and Claire Zalc (eds.), Feature “Migration and the borders of Ukraine at war”, De facto [Online], 33 | June 2022, posted online on 24 June 2022. URL : https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/en/2022/11/07/defacto-033–02/
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