Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Background notes, Poland
Author: Background Notes
Author: United States Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Spring Will Be Ours
Author: Andrzej PaczkowskiPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047539
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Spring Will Be Ours focuses on the turbulent half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which started the chain of events that would lead to the communist takeover of Poland, to 1989, when futile attempts to reform the communist system gave way to its total transformation. Andrzej Paczkowski shows how the communists captured and consolidated power, describes their use of terror and propaganda, and illuminates the changes that took place within the governing elite. He also documents the political opposition to the regime - both inside Poland and abroad - that resulted in upheavals in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, and 1980. His narrative makes evident the pressures that the elite felt from above, from Moscow, and from below, from the population and from within the party. The history of Poland and the Poles is of special interest because on numerous occasions in the twentieth century this relatively small country influenced developments on a global scale.
The Struggles for Poland
Author: Neal AschersonPublisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A history of Poland, written by an English journalist, concentrating especially on the 20th century up to 1986. For information on antisemitism see the index.
God's Playground: 1795 to the present
Author: Norman DaviesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780231053532
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
History of Poland
Author: Facts about Poland
Author: Background Notes, Poland
Author: Anonima tzw. Galla kronika czyli Dzieje ksi???t i w?adc¢w polskich
Author: Gallus (Anonymus)Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9639241407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Written around 1112-1116, the Chronicles and Deeds is the oldest narrative source from Poland. This work tells the ancient history of Poland down to the reign of Boleslaw III.
Europe's Growth Champion
Author: Marcin PiatkowskiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198789343
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ranks of the world's high income countries. Europe's Growth Champion is about the lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions that keep countries poor, and the challenges that countries need to face in order to grow. It defines a new growth model that Poland and its Eastern European peers need to adopt to grow and catch up with their Western counterparts. Poland's economic rise emphasizes the importance of the fundamental sources of growth- institutions, culture, ideas, and leaders- in economic development. It demonstrates that a shift from an extractive society, where the few rule for the benefit of the few, to an inclusive society, where many rule for the benefit of many, can be the key to economic success. *IEurope's Growth Champion asserts that a newly emerged inclusive society will support further convergence of Poland and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe with the West, and help to sustain the region's Golden Age. It also acknowledges the future challenges that Poland faces, and that moving to the core of the European economy will require further reforms and changes in Poland's developmental character.
