Author: A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312226442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-Communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. They show the strengths and weaknesses of the Stalinist project for Poland and explore its ambiguous reception by society.
Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956
Author: A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312226442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-Communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. They show the strengths and weaknesses of the Stalinist project for Poland and explore its ambiguous reception by society.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312226442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-Communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. They show the strengths and weaknesses of the Stalinist project for Poland and explore its ambiguous reception by society.
Iron Curtain
Author: Anne Applebaum
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385536437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385536437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 803
Book Description
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956
Author: A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312226442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-Communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. They show the strengths and weaknesses of the Stalinist project for Poland and explore its ambiguous reception by society.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312226442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-Communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. They show the strengths and weaknesses of the Stalinist project for Poland and explore its ambiguous reception by society.
Poland, 1918-1945
Author: Peter D. Stachura
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history
Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959)
Author: Katharina Friedla
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 1644697513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 1644697513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.
The Warsaw Uprising of 1944
Author: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299207304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299207304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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Germans to Poles
Author: Hugo Service
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107671485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107671485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.
Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands from Its Inception to the Present
Author: François Guesnet
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern European Jewish political encounter.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Illustrating and documenting one thousand years of Jewish self-government in Polish and Lithuanian lands, this pioneering volume offers sources on Jewish communal organisation, civil and religious leadership, state policies, legislative projects, and the eastern European Jewish political encounter.
Poland under Communism
Author: A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521884402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book was the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony Kemp-Welch integrates the Cold War history of diplomacy and inter-state relations with the study of domestic opposition and social movements. His key themes encompass political, social and economic history; the Communist movement and its relations with the Soviet Union; and the broader East-West context with particular attention to US policies. The book concludes with a first-hand account of how Solidarity formed the world's first post-Communist government in 1989 as the Polish people demonstrated what can be achieved by civic courage against apparently insuperable geo-strategic obstacles. This compelling new account will be essential reading for anyone interested in Polish history, the Communist movement and the course of the Cold War.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521884402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book was the first English-language history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism. Using a wide range of Polish archives and unpublished sources in Moscow and Washington, Tony Kemp-Welch integrates the Cold War history of diplomacy and inter-state relations with the study of domestic opposition and social movements. His key themes encompass political, social and economic history; the Communist movement and its relations with the Soviet Union; and the broader East-West context with particular attention to US policies. The book concludes with a first-hand account of how Solidarity formed the world's first post-Communist government in 1989 as the Polish people demonstrated what can be achieved by civic courage against apparently insuperable geo-strategic obstacles. This compelling new account will be essential reading for anyone interested in Polish history, the Communist movement and the course of the Cold War.
Lower Silesia From Nazi Germany To Communist Poland 1942-49
Author: Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349232165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lower Silesia was one of the regions Germany lost to Poland following the Second World War. During the space of a few years, the entire territory was transformed, reversing the tradition of centuries. The eviction and suffering of the indigenous Germans is contrasted with the similar hardships the Polish resettlers were forced to undergo. Striking is the similarity of manipulation of both Silesian groups by their political masters. That Lower Silesia was ceded at all reveals much about wartime and postwar Allied negotiations which culminated in the Cold War.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349232165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lower Silesia was one of the regions Germany lost to Poland following the Second World War. During the space of a few years, the entire territory was transformed, reversing the tradition of centuries. The eviction and suffering of the indigenous Germans is contrasted with the similar hardships the Polish resettlers were forced to undergo. Striking is the similarity of manipulation of both Silesian groups by their political masters. That Lower Silesia was ceded at all reveals much about wartime and postwar Allied negotiations which culminated in the Cold War.