War in the Carpathians, 1912-1952

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The Carpathian Region of Central Europe was in constant turmoil for 40 years, starting with an order to collect names of persons suspected of disloyalty to the Habsburg Monarchy in 1912 and ending with the resettlement of the last of the Lemko autochthons in 1952. This period included the Siege of Przemysl, the Carpathian Winter War and the Breakthrough at Gorlice-Tarnow in WW I and the Battle of the Dukla Pass in 1944 and the civil war and ethnic cleansing of 1944-1947. We will discuss some aspects of this time period

Sub Unit

• History: Central and Southeast Europe, Since 1918

Chair

• Paul J. Best, Lemko Association / Carpathian Institute

Papers

• The Siege of Przemysl - Graydon A. Tunstall, U of South Florida

• The Battle of the Dukla Pass - Ludmila Kovalchuk, Baikal State U (Russia)

• Lemko Refugees in Slovakia - Bohdan Halczak, U of Zielona Góra (Poland)

Discussants

• Jaroslaw Moklak, Jagiellonian U (Poland)

• Olga Isaakovna Fleshler, Trans-Baikal State U (Russia)