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Sketches from a Secret War
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles—intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during the Second World War, and conspired against Poland’s Stalinists until his arrest in 1953. His personal story, important in its own right, sheds new light on the foundations of Soviet power and on the ideals of those who resisted it. 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 book mines archival materials, many available only since the fall of communism, to rescue Józewski, his Polish milieu, and his Ukrainian dream from oblivion. An epilogue connects his legacy to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the democratic revolution in Ukraine in 2004.
Dance in Chains
A study of the role of political imprisonment in the modern world in regimes ranging from communist to fascist to colonial to democratic.
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossoli?ski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality and scrutinizes the history of the most violent twentieth-century Ukrainian nationalist movement: the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Elucidating the circumstances in which Bandera and his movement emerged and functioned, Rossoli?ski-Liebe explains how fascism and racism impacted on Ukrainian revolutionary and genocidal nationalism. The book shows w...
Words in Space and Time
With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two cen...
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Politische Justiz, Herrschaft, Widerstand
Der Band vereinigt zwölf Beiträge des am 4. März 2019 ebenso früh wie unerwartet verstorbenen Historikers Jürgen Zarusky. Darunter befinden sich mehrere bislang unveröffentlichte Manuskripte. Die Texte spiegeln die zentralen wissenschaftlichen und politischen Themenfelder, mit denen sich der Chefredakteur der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte auseinandergesetzt hat: politische Justiz, nationalsozialistische und stalinistische Herrschaft sowie Widerstand und Verfolgung. Als maßgebliches methodisches Instrumentarium dient dabei der Diktaturvergleich. Quer dazu liegt mit der Erinnerungspolitik eine weitere Thematik, die für Jürgen Zarusky stets von großer Bedeutung war, betrachtete er den Beruf des Zeithistorikers doch auch als politische Profession. Andreas Wirsching leitet den Band mit einer Würdigung der wissenschaftlichen Persönlichkeit Jürgen Zaruskys ein.
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BUNT, PODZIEMIE, WŁADZA
Książka ta opowiada o polskich komunistach i komunistkach: o ich doświadczeniach, poglądach, postawach i emocjach. Autor śledzi losy ponaddwustuosobowej grupy działaczy i działaczek od ich dzieciństwa, przez wieloletnią formację w nielegalnym ruchu rewolucyjnym w II Rzeczypospolitej, aż po lata powojenne, kiedy stanęli oni na szczytach władzy. Dzięki nowatorskiemu spojrzeniu, krytycznemu, a zarazem empatycznemu, uchwycona zostaje wielość „osobistych komunizmów” i mechanizmy ich ujednolicania, biograficzne zerwania i ciągłości, emancypacyjne marzenia i afirmacja przemocy. Łukasz Bertram, doktor nauk społecznych, socjolog, historyk. Pracownik Instytutu Studiów Polity...
