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Platerówki? Boże broń!
– Żeby tylko wrócić. Czy to dzięki diabłu, czy Stalinowi, nieważne, żeby tylko wrócić, powtarzałam w myślach. I dodawałam: żeby się najeść, żeby mnie już pluskwy nie gryzły – wspomina Ada, żołnierka Samodzielnego Batalionu Kobiecego im. Emilii Plater, jedynej takiej formacji w historii polskiego wojska. Ada, jak tysiące innych dziewcząt wywiezionych podczas II wojny światowej na Syberię, żeby wrócić do domu, zgłosiła się do tworzonej od 1943 roku w ZSRR armii Berlinga. Kobiety w tym „ludowym” Wojsku Polskim nosiły moździerze, obsługiwały cekaemy, dowodziły męskimi oddziałami liniowymi, były spadochroniarkami, snajperkami i zwiadowczyniami. Po wojnie, zapomniane i uciszane, miały „kupić sobie fartuszek” i „rodzić wspaniałych synów”. W PRL-u ich przeżycia dopasowano do propagandowej wizji historii, a współcześnie zmanipulowano je w ramach obowiązującej polityki historycznej. – Platerówki pod każdym względem nie spełniają oczekiwań wobec tego, co powinna robić kobieta – mówi historyczka Dobrochna Kałwa. – Platerówki rozwalają system.
Intermarium
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...
Communist Activities Among Aliens and National Groups
Also considers legislation to authorize Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport and ban immigration of aliens engaged in subversive activities.
Ideology, Politics, and Diplomacy in East Central Europe
No region of the world has been more affected by the various movements of the twentieth century than East Central Europe. Broadly defined as comprising the historic territories of the Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks, East Central Europe has been shaped by the interaction of politics, ideology, and diplomacy, especially by the policies of the Great Powers towards the east of Europe. This book addresses Czech politics in Moravia and Czech politics in Bohemia in the nineteenth century, the international politics of relief during World War I, the Morgenthau Mission and the Polish Pogroms of 1919, the Hitler-Stalin Pact and its influence on Poland in 1939, Hungarian-Americans during World War II, and Polish-East German relations after World War II. Contributors: Bruce Garver, M. B. B. Biskupski, Neal Pease, William L. Blackwood, Anna M. Cienciala, Steven Bela Vardy, and Douglas Selvage. M. B. B. Biskupski is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.
The Frontline
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy’s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine’s complex relations with Russia and the West, the burden of tragedies such as the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and Ukraine’s contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Juxtaposing Ukraine’s history to the contemporary politics of memory, this volume provides a multidimensional image of a country that continues to make headlines around the world. Eloquent in style and comprehensive in approach, the essays collected here reveal the roots of the ongoing political, cultural, and military conflict in Ukraine, the largest country in Europe.
Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940
Examining the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and other camps in 1940 – one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War – this book sheds new light on what took place and how the memory of the massacres long affected, and continues to affect, Polish-Russian relations.
