Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940

George Sanford is a reader in politics Bristol University and a leading academic specialist on Poland and Eastern Europe. He is the author of ten books, including most recently the Historical Dictionary of Poland (2003), Democratic Government in Poland (2002) and Poland: The Conquest of History (1999).

• List of Tables  Preface  Introduction  Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  1. Poland and Russia  2. The Sovietisation of East Poland  3. The Stalinist Terror and Prisoner of War System  4. The Indoctrination, Screening/Investigation and Selection  5. Course, Mechanisms and Technology of the Massacre  6. The Struggle for Historical Truth  7. Management and Control of the Truth about the 1940 Massacre: American-British Lies, Hypocrisy and Self-Delusion  8. Soviet and Polish Communist Control of the Truth about Katyn: The Conflict with National Memory  9. Closure of the 1940 Soviet Massacre Issue  Bibliography  Index

'This study is the fullest investigation to date of this atrocity...It is based on considerable research in various archives and is written dispassionately and objectively and is thereby all the more moving.' - Contemporary Review