British Policy Towards Poland 1944 1956

Author : Andrea Mason
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319942414

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British Policy Towards Poland, 1944–1956 by Andrea Mason Pdf

This book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War. It analyses the wartime origins of Churchill’s commitment to Poland, and assesses the reasons for the collapse of British efforts to support the leader of the Polish opposition, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, in countering the attempt by the Polish communist party to establish one-party rule after the war. This examination of Anglo-Polish relations is set within the broader context of emerging early Cold War tensions. It addresses the shift in British foreign policy after 1945 towards the US, the Soviet Union and Europe, as British leaders and policymakers adjusted both to the new post-war international circumstances, and to the domestic constraints which increasingly limited British policy options. This work analyses the reasons for Ernest Bevin’s decision to disengage from Poland, helping to advance the debate on the larger question of Bevin’s vision of Britain’s place within the newly reconfigured international system. The final chapter surveys British policy towards Poland from the period of Sovietisation in the late 1940s up to the October 1956 revolution, arguing that Poland’s process of liberalisation in the mid-1950s served as the catalyst for limited British reengagement in Eastern Europe.

Author : A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349276806

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Stalinism in Poland, 1944–56 by A. Kemp-Welch Pdf

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. The book is organised in three parts: Construction (external and domestic), Conflicts (above all, communists against the Church and peasantry) and Collapse (during 1956). An Epilogue reviews the whole period in the light of contemporary political debates.

Author : A. Kemp-Welch
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0312226446

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Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956 by A. Kemp-Welch Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009098984

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In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Michael Fleming Pdf

Examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes which took place during the Second World War were prosecuted.

Author : S. M. Plokhy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101189924

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Yalta by S. M. Plokhy Pdf

A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace. The ink wasn't dry when the recriminations began. The conservatives who hated Roosevelt's New Deal accused him of selling out. Was he too sick? Did he give too much in exchange for Stalin's promise to join the war against Japan? Could he have done better in Eastern Europe? Both Left and Right would blame Yalta for beginning the Cold War. Plokhy's conclusions, based on unprecedented archival research, are surprising. He goes against conventional wisdom-cemented during the Cold War- and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief. Yalta is authoritative, original, vividly- written narrative history, and is sure to appeal to fans of Margaret MacMillan's bestseller Paris 1919.

Author : Halik Kochanski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674068162

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The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski Pdf

World War II gripped Poland as it did no other country. Invaded by Germany and the USSR, it was occupied from the first day of war to the last, and then endured 44 years behind the Iron Curtain while its wartime partners celebrated their freedom. The Eagle Unbowed tells, for the first time, the story of Poland’s war in its entirety and complexity.

Author : Anne Applebaum
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385536431

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Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum Pdf

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.

Author : Hugo Service
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107671485

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Germans to Poles by Hugo Service Pdf

This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521852544

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Visions of Victory by Gerhard L. Weinberg Pdf

Visions of Victory, first published in 2005, explores the views of eight leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt. He compares their visions of the future in the event of victory. While the leaders primarily focused on fighting and winning the war, their decisions were often shaped by their aspirations for the future. What emerges is a startling picture of postwar worlds. After exterminating the Jews, Hitler intended for all Slavs to die so Germans could inhabit Eastern Europe. Mussolini and Hitler wanted extensive colonies in Africa. Churchill hoped for the re-emergence of British and French empires. De Gaulle wanted to annex the northwest corner of Italy. Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe. Roosevelt's vision included establishing the United Nations. Weinberg's comparison of the individual portraits of the war-time leaders is a highly original and compelling study of history that might have been.

Author : Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349232161

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Lower Silesia From Nazi Germany To Communist Poland 1942-49 by Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135276386

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Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944-1950 by Michael Fleming Pdf

This book examines the establishment of communist rule in Poland from 1944-1950. It examines the fundamental role of nationalism and nationality policy in the consolidation of communist power, acting as a crucial nexus through which different groups were both coerced and able to consent to the new order.

Author : D. Mokrosinska,Dorota Mokrosi?ska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137025036

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Rethinking Political Obligation by D. Mokrosinska,Dorota Mokrosi?ska Pdf

What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state? This book offers a fresh analysis of the debate concerning the moral obligation to obey the state, develops a novel account of political obligation and provides the first detailed argument of how a theory of political obligation can apply to subjects of an unjust state.

Author : Peter D. Stachura
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415343585

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Poland, 1918-1945 by Peter D. Stachura Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123829207

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Acta Poloniae Historica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith Robbins,American Historical Association,Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0198224966

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A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 by Keith Robbins,American Historical Association,Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.