The Polish People's Republic
Author: James F. Morrison
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
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Spring Will Be Ours
Author: Andrzej Paczkowski
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780271047539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spring Will Be Ours focuses on the turbulent half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which started the chain of events that would lead to the communist takeover of Poland, to 1989, when futile attempts to reform the communist system gave way to its total transformation. Andrzej Paczkowski shows how the communists captured and consolidated power, describes their use of terror and propaganda, and illuminates the changes that took place within the governing elite. He also documents the political opposition to the regime - both inside Poland and abroad - that resulted in upheavals in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, and 1980. His narrative makes evident the pressures that the elite felt from above, from Moscow, and from below, from the population and from within the party. The history of Poland and the Poles is of special interest because on numerous occasions in the twentieth century this relatively small country influenced developments on a global scale.
Reassessing Communism
Author: Katarzyna Chmielewska
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9633863791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in east-central Europe.
A Concise History of Poland
Author: Jerzy Lukowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-07-06
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 052185332X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history from medieval times to the present day.
Curtain of Lies
Author: Melissa Feinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0190644613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurtain of Lies tells the story of the struggle to define the truth of Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1956. It examines how actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain tried to create knowledge about Eastern Europe, and thus helped solidify the battle lines of the Cold War.
Without Jews?
Author: Magdalena Ruta
Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
Published: 2017-06-19
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 8323394911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMagdalena Ruta explores the virtually unknown area of Yiddish literature created in Poland after World War II. She unravels before general readers and future researchers numerous texts and analyses them in a lucid and captivating manner. The book should appeal to readers from various disciplines as well as to a non-scholarly audience as it touches upon difficult and complex problems that only recently have become the subject of thorough research and that are still perceived as controversial, such as Polish-Jewish relations after the war, or the fascination of a substantial number of Polish Jewish intellectuals with communism. It is worth stressing that the author deals with this sensitive topic competently and objectively. Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Jews and Leftist Politics
Author: Jack Jacobs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-24
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1108107575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe relationships, past and present, between Jews and the political left remain of abiding interest to both the academic community and the public. Jews and Leftist Politics contains new and insightful chapters from world-renowned scholars and considers such matters as the political implications of Judaism; the relationships of leftists and Jews; the histories of Jews on the left in Europe, the United States, and Israel; contemporary anti-Zionism; the associations between specific Jews and Communist parties; and the importance of gendered perspectives. It also contains fresh studies of canonical figures, including Gershom Scholem, Gustav Landauer, and Martin Buber, and examines the affiliations of Jews to prominent institutions, calling into question previous widely held assumptions. The volume is characterized by judicious appraisals made by respected authorities, and sheds considerable light on contentious themes.
Writers, Literature and Censorship in Poland. 1948-1958
Author: Kamila Budrowska
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2019-12-24
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9783631801482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948-1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is based on archival sources in the form of documents created by the Central Censorship Office. It is the first literary studies work which takes up the subject in such broad and systematic terms.
The People's Republic of Walmart
Author: Leigh Phillips
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 178663516X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.
Made in Poland
Author: Patryk Galuszka
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1351119206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMade in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Polish music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Poland and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Poland, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Popular Music in the People’s Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.
