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Marxism and Medieval Studies
This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emphasis on the co-existence of Marxist and other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the local historiographies in question. Its approach is to distinguish between pseudo-Marxism as an ideological tool on the one hand, and Marxism in the form of historical materialism as a way to interpret the medieval world on the other. Contributors are: Florin Curta, Piotr Guzowski, Adam Hudek, Tereza Johanidesová, Jitka Komendová, Jiří Macháček, Andrzej Marzec, Martin Nodl, Attila Pók, David Radek, Tadeusz Paweł Rutkowski, Iurie Stamati, Rafał Stobiecki, Gábor Thoroczkay, Przemysław Wiszewski, Piotr Węcowski, Martin Wihoda, and Dušan Zupka.
The Birth of Solidarity
This book describes the origins and birth of Solidarity in 1980, its rebirth in 1989, and the formation of a Solidarity government. This second edition is now enlarged to include fresh documentation of the 1980 strike, a further mmoire on the experts' role 'behind the scenes', and an entirely new chapter 'From Gdansk to Government'. Taken together, the analysis and documentation provide a permanent record of Eastern Europe's first breakthrough into post-communism.
A Clean Sweep?
An examination of how the Polish state and its people worked together to ethnically cleanse and colonize eastern Germany after 1945. A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960 examines the long-term impact of ethnic cleansing on postwar Poland, focusing on the western Polish provinces of Poznan and Zielona Góra. Employing archival materials from multiple sources, including newly available Secret Police archives, it demonstrates how ethnic cleansing solidified Communist rule in the short term while reshaping and "nationalizing" that rule. The Poles of Poznan played a crucial role in the postwar national revolution in which Poland was ethnically cleansed by a...
Birth of Solidarity
This book describes the origins and birth of Solidarity in 1980, its rebirth in 1989, and the formation of a Solidarity government.
Rebellious Satellite
"Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 relates the social history of the protests and mass movements that ultimately changed Polish politics and Polish-Soviet relations in 1956, yet avoided an armed Soviet response. Pawel Machcewicz focuses on people's expression of grievances, and even riots, rather than on "top-level" activities such as internal Communist Part struggles, as he carefully depicts the protests that took place in Poznan in June 1956 and across Poland the following October and November." "Based largely on newly available Party and security apparatus documents, which were originally prepared to inform Poland's Party leadership about what was happening on the ground, the book also includes an illuminating selection of photographs from Poznari in June 1956 taken secretly by the police."--Jacket.
Transnationale Wissenschafts- und Verhandlungskultur
Die Geschichte der Deutsch-Polnischen Schulbuchkommission, als eine der wichtigsten Plattformen des Wissenschaftsdialogs zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Volksrepublik Polen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, ist in dreierlei Hinsicht aufschlussreich: Sie zeigt das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in einer transnational und blockübergreifend angelegten Organisation in neuem Licht. Sie richtet ihren Blick auf die Zusammenarbeit deutscher und polnischer Wissenschaftler nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und unter dem Eindruck der Entspannungspolitik. Und sie verfolgt, wie sich aus losen Expertenkontakten eine stabile Wissenschaftsorganisation entwickeln konnte. Im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehen dabei die zugrunde liegenden sozialen Strukturen, internen Regelsysteme sowie Aushandlungs- und Kommunikationsprozesse.
