Empruntant aux registres du roman noir, de l'absurde et du tragique, l'Histoire de la Pologne communiste est le premier ouvrage de synthèse et de référence qui traite cette période comme un tout, avec une approche délibérément ...

In this book Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies.

Rifke (Rosalie Wise Sharp) grew up in North Toronto, which felt to her like a foreign place because there were no other Jewish families there in the late 1930s.

In this book the author uses true accounts of her family's history to discuss the treatment of Ukranian citizens of Poland after World War II and the political upheaval and relocation which occurred to them.

Malgorzata Fidelis' study of female industrial workers in postwar Poland proves that women were central to the making of communist society.

To find answers to these questions Triggering Communism's Collapse examines the political dynamics of the Polish transition-a transition that stripped the communist party of its control of the government, thrust an opposition leader into ...

Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany’s ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed.

What responsibility do the Poles share for the mass murder of the Jews, which took place largely on Polish soil? In a major contribution to the history of the Holocaust Polonsky gathers together the most important arguments in this debate.

For the biographer this is a double-edged sword, however: thereare many periods for which documentation is uncommonly difficult.

Although paying particular reference to the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Andrzej Wajda, this book considers the contribution of a wide range of filmmakers, including Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Agnieska Holland, Andrzej Munk, ...

Living in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, real-estate dealer Stephen Friedman becomes hungry for answers after he discovers a deceased woman's papers that indicate she owned a priceless religious relic, and that she may have been his mother ...

This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

Linking the past and present of Polish-Jewish relations, and combining anthropological fieldwork with archival material and secondary literature, this study reveals a pattern of Polish-Jewish interdependence.

Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal dynamics and the historical, political, social and cultural context that has made it ...

This book examines the educational system of Poland from the perspectives of the past, the present, and the future.

The book also traces the institutional development of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland-Lithuania, one of the few European states to escape bloody religious conflict during the Reformation and Counter Reformation.

A Conversation -- On the Edge, In the World -- Democracy as Civilizing Mission -- The Integration Myth -- The Many Meanings of the Border -- Polish Towns?

The book reviews the United States' experience of open-ended public participation and draws some lessons for the transition countries from the strengths and weaknesses of the American system.

Presents the story of a Holocaust rescuer to reveal the formidable risks she took to her own safety to save some 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber examines American policy toward Poland and its promotion of moderate voices within the opposition, while simultaneously addressing the Soviet and European influences on Poland's revolution ...

No detailed description available for "Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919-1939".

In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher.

Describes the formation of one of the most daring underground movements of World War II under the leadership of twenty-four-year-old Isaac Zuckerman, and the group's collective efforts to gather information, build an arms cache, participate ...

Intermingles an account of Poland's participation in the military effort of World War II with factual human-interest stories.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terms -- Introduction -- 1 Jabotinsky Encounters Polish Jewish Youth -- 2 Little Fascists? -- 3 Obedient Children, Reckless Rebels -- 4 Poland, ...

This book offers an account of how the two sides came to sign the treaty - a pact that established a boundary with a measure of stability that would last untill 1939.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This great work, which stands apart from the majority of diaries and memoirs of the period, is one of the most important of Polish literary and historical documents.

England's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century.

The present collection of studies by thirteen of Poland's leading historians will acquaint the layman with the basic issues of Poland's historical evolution, and offer specialists radical reinterpretations of some of those issues.

This novel argument linking economics, politics, sociology, and demography should stimulate wide-ranging debate about the strategic uses of social policy.

Ordinary people speak in this volume with an immediacy and poignancy that cannot help but touch the reader. In the time since it first appeared, From a Ruined Garden has become a classic.

The rise of Great Britain and Russia is the focus of this particular volume of The New Cambridge Modern History.

From the author of Once We Were Brothers comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust survivor’s quest to fulfill a promise, return to Poland and find two sisters lost during World War II.

By following the arc of Józewski’s life, this book demonstrates that his tolerant policies toward Ukrainians in Volhynia were part of Poland’s plans to roll back the communist threat.

The year 1647 was that wonderful year in which manifold signs in the heavens and on the earth announced misfortunes of some kind and unusual events.

Ziel der Arbeit ist es, anhand von empirischem lexikalischen Material in einer soziolinguistischen Perspektive die mit dem politischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Umbruch 1989 einhergehenden Phänomene des Sprachwandels und die ...

Reveals the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation and explores resistance to the regime by the Warsaw intelligentsia.

***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Friedla: Katharina Friedla wurde mit der vorliegenden Studie an der Universität Basel promoviert.

The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience.

Robert Frost examines the reasons for the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Swedish invasion of 1655.

Territoriale, kulturelle und funktionale Autonomie1.3.

In this memoir, Jost Hermand, a German cultural critic and historian who spent much of his youth in five different camps, writes about his experiences during this period.

Thema der 23 Aufsatze von Gerhard Kosellek sind die deutsch-polnischen Wechselbeziehungen im Bereich der Literatur und Kultur.

With pathos and deeply informed insight, Jaff Schatz relates the life story of the Jews who joined the Polish Communist Party in the late 1920s and early 1930s, only to become its victims thirty years later.

Das Stereotyp 'polnische Wirtschaft' beherrscht seit dem spaten 18.

L'ex-homo-sovieticus n'a plus, dit-on, l'amour de la terre , ni le goût de l'agriculture.

The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.

This book explores the ramifications of the peacekeeping mission by three countries in light of their various foreign policies, set in the wider scene of international politics.

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.