Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe

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Preface
This book is the result of the Conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe al Duquesne University (Nov. 16-18, 2000), which dealt with forced migrations, populations exchanges, and mass exterminations, but not wilh the Jewish Holocaust. The latter has been treated extensively by scores of international conferences and thousands of books and other publications, which made the conference organizers decide to deal with the lesser favored topics in the area of ethnic cleansing.
The Conference at Duquesne University was co-sponsored by the Institute for German-American Relations [IGAR] and by Austin College, Sherman, Texas. Financially it was underwritten by grants from Duquesne University and Austin College, with additional funding by IGAR. The latter Institute is also responsible — along with Duquesne University — for a partial subsidy toward the publication of this book in Columbia University Press's "East European Monographs" Series.
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Fülszöveg

Preface
This book is the result of the Conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe al Duquesne University (Nov. 16-18, 2000), which dealt with forced migrations, populations exchanges, and mass exterminations, but not wilh the Jewish Holocaust. The latter has been treated extensively by scores of international conferences and thousands of books and other publications, which made the conference organizers decide to deal with the lesser favored topics in the area of ethnic cleansing.
The Conference at Duquesne University was co-sponsored by the Institute for German-American Relations [IGAR] and by Austin College, Sherman, Texas. Financially it was underwritten by grants from Duquesne University and Austin College, with additional funding by IGAR. The latter Institute is also responsible — along with Duquesne University — for a partial subsidy toward the publication of this book in Columbia University Press's "East European Monographs" Series.
The three-day conference attracted about sixty scholars and "ethnic cleansing survivors" from seven different countries, who presented a total of forty-eight papers, most of which have found their way into the present volume. Some of those who failed to make it, did so because of illness or failure to finish their studies. They were replaced by others who had publishable essays that fit neatly into this volume.
In addition to scholars and survivors of ethnic cleansing, the conference also hosted two keynote speakers: Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, Director, National Security Agency (a graduate of Duquesne University), and Dr. Géza Jeszenszky, Hungary's Ambassador to the United States (a published scholar-historian). Their essays on two distinct topics are printed at the beginning of this volume.
The organizers of this conference were Professor Steven Béla Várdy (Director, Duquesne University History Forum) and Professor T. Hunt Tooley (Austin College). They were supported by Professor Agnes Huszár Várdy (Robert Morris University) and Dr. Marianne Bouvier (Executive Director, IGAR). The first three of these also undertook the task of editing this volume, with Professor Tooley assuming the additional burden of formatting the manuscript into a camera-ready copy.
The two co-editors and the associate editor would like to thank their respective institutions for the support they have received, as well as the Institute for German-American Relations and Dr. Marianne Bouvier, for co-sponsoring this important conference and the resulting volume. They would also like to thank Professor Stephen Fischer-Galati for publishing this work in Columbia University Press's internationally known East European Monographs Series.
The Editors
STEVEN BÉLA VÁRDY. Ph.D., is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University, long-time Director of the University's History Forum, and former Chairman of its Department of History. He is an invited member of the International P.E.N., and the Hungarian Writers' Federation, Board Member of the World Federation of Hungarian Historians, and the International Association of Hungarian Language and Culture, and President of the Pittsburgh-based Institute for German American Relations. Professor Várdy is the author or coauthor of seventeen books and nearly five-hundred articles, essays, and reviews. His books deal with the history of Hungary and the Habsburg Empire, as well as with American immigration. He is the recipient of about two dozen major research grants, Duquesne University's "Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship" (1984), Hungary's "Berzsenyi-Prize" (1992). the Árpád Academy's "Gold Medal" (1997), and the "Officer's Cross" awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary (2001).
TOOLEY, T. HUNT, Ph.D., is Professor of History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Virginia in 1986, after having earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Texas A&M University. He specializes in the history of Germany and the German-Polish borderlands in the twentieth century, and in broader issues of war, revolution, and peacemaking. He is the author of National Identity and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922 (University of Nebraska Press, 1997) and On the Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War (Palgrave Press, UK, forthcoming). He has published numerous articles on the history of- the twentieth century world and was Co-Organizer of the Conference on Ethnic Cleansing at Duquesne University.
VÁRDY, ÁGNES HUSZÁR. Ph.D., is Professor of Communications and Comparative Literature at Robert Morris University, Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University, and the author or coauthor of eight books and over eighty articles and essays, among them a social-historical novel, Mimi, used in history classes at several American universities. A frequent traveler and lecturer in Europe, Dr. Várdy is an invited member of the Árpád Academy (1980), the International P.E.N. (1985), and the Hungfian Writers' Federation (1997), as well as a Board Member o) the International Association of Hungarian Language and Cu; jre, and the Institute for German-American Relations. She it the recipient of Hungary's Berzsenyi Prize (1992), and Árpád Academy's Gold Medal (1998), in recognition of her scholarly achievements and for her promotion of Hungarian culture abroad. Vissza