Poland Between The Wars 1918 1939

Author : Peter D. Stachura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349269426

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Poland between the Wars, 1918–1939 by Peter D. Stachura Pdf

Incorporating selective papers from a successful conference organised by the Polish Society, this book presents challenging and frequently revisionist views on a variety of controversial themes relating to the interwar Polish Republic, including its struggle over Upper Silesia, the question of national identity and its ethnic minorities, the significance of the Battle of Warsaw, the role of the press and its defence preparations in 1939. The volume thus makes an important contribution to scholarly debate of a crucial period in Poland's recent history.

Author : Timothy J. Wiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015019400087

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Poland Between the Wars, 1918-1939 by Timothy J. Wiles Pdf

Author : Richard M. Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211775825

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Bitter Glory by Richard M. Watt Pdf

Watt tells the story of the painful birth, tormented life, and cataclysmic death of the independent Poland of 1918-1939. He also gives the definitive account in English of the dominant figure in this story, the Polish freedom fighter and strongman Jozef Pilsudski, whose admirers included Poland's Jews and Adolf Hitler.

Author : Peter D. Stachura
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Edward D. Wynot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081518420

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Warsaw Between the World Wars by Edward D. Wynot Pdf

A significant contribution to the political, social and economic history of Poland, this volume on the capital city of Warsaw is a pioneer study in urban history as well.

Author : Yisrael Gutman
Publisher : Tauber Institute Series for th
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0874515556

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The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars by Yisrael Gutman Pdf

Original essays by distinguished scholars explore Jewish politics, religion, literature, and society in Poland from 1918 to 1939.

Author : Roger Moorhouse
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465095414

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Poland 1939 by Roger Moorhouse Pdf

A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London). For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.

Author : Winson Chu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107008304

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The German Minority in Interwar Poland by Winson Chu Pdf

Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.

Author : Antony Polonsky,Ezra Mendelsohn,Jerzy Tomaszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jews
ISBN : UVA:X004894240

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Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939 by Antony Polonsky,Ezra Mendelsohn,Jerzy Tomaszewski Pdf

In the period between the two world wars, Poland's Jewish community was second only in size to that of the United States, and was the laboratory in which the ideological orientations which dominated the Jewish world - Zionism, Bundism, Neo-Orthodoxy, Assimilation - were tested. There has been much disagreement as to the character and strength of anitsemitism in Poland at that time, and the extent to which the experience of the Jews aided the Nazis in carrying out their genocidal plans. This latest volume of Polin includes contributions from Poland, western Europe, Israel, and North America, which together provide a clearer understanding of the issues which have in the past proved so divisive. It also includes a number of personal testimonies from people who experienced the interwar period at first hand. The result is a book that will be essential reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and in the problems of ethnic minorities in post-Versailles Europe.

Author : Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863367

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Wars and Betweenness by Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau Pdf

The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.

Author : Peter Stachura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134289493

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Poland, 1918-1945 by Peter 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 : Peter Stachura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134289486

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Poland, 1918-1945 by Peter Stachura Pdf

Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period. Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and abroad to achieve consolidation as an independent state in the early 1920s, made relative economic progress, created a coherent social order, produced an outstanding cultural scene, advanced educational opportunity, and adopted constructive and even-handed policies towards its ethnic minorities. Without denying the defeats suffered by the Republic, Peter Stachura demonstrates that the fate of Poland after 1945, with the imposition of an unwanted, Soviet-dominated Communist system, was thoroughly undeserved.

Author : P. Stachura
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403915900

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Poland in the Twentieth Century by P. Stachura Pdf

Comprising mostly original essays, this book offers challenging reassessments of some of the most important and controversial themes in Polish history from 1900 until the present. In analysing Poland's triumphs and tribulations with an informed and searching eye, the author achieves a high level of intellectual coherence and nuanced historical perspectives. The overall result is a major contribution to a field of study which has gained even more significance and scholarly impetus since the collapse of Communism in Poland in 1989/90.

Author : Adam Daniel Rotfeld,Anatoly V. Torkunov
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822980957

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White Spots—Black Spots by Adam Daniel Rotfeld,Anatoly V. Torkunov Pdf

Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse of communism, historians in both countries have struggled to come to grips with this difficult legacy. This pioneering study, prepared by the semi-official Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, is a comprehensive effort to document and fully disclose the major conflicts and interrelations between the two nations from 1918 to 2008, events that have often been avoided or presented with a strong political bias. This is the English translation of this major study, which has received acclaim for its Polish and Russian editions. The chapters offer parallel histories by prominent Polish and Russian scholars who recount each country’s version of the event in question. Among the topics discussed are the 1920 Polish-Russian war, the origins of World War II and the notorious Hitler-Stalin pact, the infamously shrouded Katyn massacre, the communization of Poland, Cold War relations, the Solidarity movement and martial law, and the renewed relations of contemporary Poland and Russia.

Author : Ilya Prizel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521576970

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National Identity and Foreign Policy by Ilya Prizel Pdf

This book is based on the premise that the foreign policy of any country is heavily influenced by a society's evolving notions of itself. Applying his analysis to Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, the author argues that national identity is an ever-changing concept, influenced by internal and external events, and by the manipulation of a polity's collective memory. The interaction of the narrative of a society and its foreign policy is therefore paramount. This is especially the case in East-Central Europe, where political institutions are weak, and social coherence remains subject to the vagaries of the concept of nationhood. Ilya Prizel's study will be of interest to students of nationalism, as well as of foreign policy and politics in East-Central Europe.