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Katyn
In the spring of 1940, the Soviet Union carried out the mass executions of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work details the Soviet killings, the elaborate cover-up of the crime, and the subsequent revelations.
Being Poland
Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway
A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in compariso...
The Polish Deportees of World War II
Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941. This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign told in the words of some of the survivors. It is an unforgettable human drama of excruciating martyrdom in the Gulag. For example, one witness reports: "A young woman who had given birth on the train threw herself and her newborn under the wheels of an approaching train." Survivors also tell the story of events after the "amnesty." "Our suffering is simply indescribable. We have spent weeks now sleeping in lice-infested dirty rags in train stations," wrote the Milewski family. Details are also given on the non-European countries that extended a helping hand to the exiles in their hour of need.
Polska polityka zagraniczna 1918–2023
Przedmiotem oceny jest zbiór siedmiu opracowań pióra: – Ryszarda Stemplowskiego (wstęp i zakończenie), – Marka Kornata (lata 1918-1939), – Wojciecha Materskiego (1939-1945), – Piotra Długołęckiego (1945-1989), – Andrzeja Friszke (1989-2015), – Artura Nowaka-Fara (2015-2023). Wszyscy autorzy są profesjonalnymi historykami, cenionymi badaczami – autorami wielu prac naukowych. Prezentują w tym tomie w sposób skrótowy wyniki swoich dotychczasowych studiów. Przedstawione teksty są pierwszym podejściem zawodowych historyków do całościowej syntezy ponadstuletniej historii polityki zagranicznej Państwa Polskiego po uzyskaniu niepodległości – po 123 latach od momentu jej utraty w wyniku zaborów. (...) Polska – jako państwo – była wystawiona w ostatnim stuleciu na wyzwania, którym nie byłoby w stanie podołać żadne państwo europejskie. Mam na myśli szczególnie lata 1918–1939. (...) Wyzwania były ponad siły jednego państwa, ale odpowiedzialność elit politycznych i poszczególnych przywódców powinna być przedmiotem rzetelnej oceny. z recenzji wydawniczej prof. Adama Daniela Rotfelda
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.
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The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc
This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of US policy toward Poland from 1956 to 1968 has emerged in historiography. This book aims to answer why, since the political changes of the Polish October 1956, Washington ceased to see Polish affairs as “Soviet-related matters.” Instead, it recognized communist-ruled Poland as a separate political entity among other Kremlin-dependent states in Eastern Europe. This policy, introduced by the Dwight...
