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History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the East, and a point of convergence of disparate cultures. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz focuses on the Intermarium for several reasons. Most importantly because, as the inheritor of the freedom and rights stemming from the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian/Ruthenian Commonwealth, it is culturally and ideologically compatible with American national interests. It is also a gateway to both East and West. Since...
An in-depth survey of the region presenting the latest economic and political developments. It includes expert comment on issues of regional importance, up-to-date statistics, a directory of institutes and companies and political profiles.
Opis wydawniczy: Przedmiotem niniejszej książki są polscy studenci na Uniwersytecie Dorpackim w latach 1802–1918 i ich dalsze losy. Uniwersytet został utworzony w 1802 r. przez cara Aleksandra I, a w 1918 r. został ostatecznie zamknięty niemiecki Uniwersytet, na którego miejscu powstał w roku następnym zupełnie nowy – Uniwersytet Tartuski z estońskim językiem wykładowym, istniejący do chwili obecnej. W 1918 r. definitywnie skończył się dawny Uniwersytet, ten założony w 1802 r. jako Uniwersytet z niemieckim językiem wykładowym (tzw. okres dorpacki), który później, w latach 1893–1918, funkcjonował jako rosyjski (tzw. okres juriewski; nazwa od Juriewa, czyli dawne...
Comprises: a general survey of the region; country surveys; political profiles of the region; and information on international and regional organizations, and research institutes.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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A collection of testimonies and documents concerning the October 1944 attack on Ejszyszki by Home Army soldiers. The editor's introduction and other materials present arguments against Yaffa Eliach's publications, in which she accuses the soldiers of carrying out a pogrom in Ejszyszki. Argues that it was not a pogrom, but a pursuit of NKVD members. One of the NKVD officers was hidden in the house of Eliach's parents. During this action Eliach's mother and brother were killed accidentally. The attack took place after the Red Army entered the Polish Eastern territories at the end of the war, so it was part of a war between the anti-Soviet Home Army and the Soviets and their partisans.
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