The Polish Review and East European Affairs
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 104
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Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Author: Patryk Babiracki
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1469620901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order to galvanize broad support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc. Populated with compelling characters ranging from artists, writers, journalists, and scientists to party and government functionaries, this work illuminates the behind-the-scenes schemes of the Stalinist international propaganda machine. Based on exhaustive research in Russian and Polish archives, Babiracki's study is the first in any language to examine the two-way interactions between Soviet and Polish propagandists and to evaluate their attempts at cultural cooperation. Babiracki shows that the Stalinist system ultimately undermined Soviet efforts to secure popular legitimacy abroad through persuasive propaganda. He also highlights the limitations and contradictions of Soviet international cultural outreach, which help explain why the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe crumbled so easily after less than a half-century of existence.
Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe Since 1750
Author: Yiśraʼel Barṭal
Publisher: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781904113911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCounters the traditional image of Jews being in a permanent state of conflict with their eastern European neighbors by exploring neglected aspects of inter-group interaction, focusing on commonalities, reciprocal influence, and exchange.
White Spots—Black Spots
Author: Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2015-07-18
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 0822980959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war, and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence, and decades of communist rule—for both countries. Since the collapse of communism, historians in both countries have struggled to come to grips with this difficult legacy. This pioneering study, prepared by the semi-official Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, is a comprehensive effort to document and fully disclose the major conflicts and interrelations between the two nations from 1918 to 2008, events that have often been avoided or presented with a strong political bias. This is the English translation of this major study, which has received acclaim for its Polish and Russian editions. The chapters offer parallel histories by prominent Polish and Russian scholars who recount each country's version of the event in question. Among the topics discussed are the 1920 Polish-Russian war, the origins of World War II and the notorious Hitler-Stalin pact, the infamously shrouded Katyn massacre, the communization of Poland, Cold War relations, the Solidarity movement and martial law, and the renewed relations of contemporary Poland and Russia.
Polish Revolution
Author: Timothy Garton Ash
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Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780006388494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTimothy Garton Ash was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980 when the trade union Solidarity was born, in opposition to the Communist government. He witnessed their bravery and defiance and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in the country's future president, Lech Walesa. This text recreates the ideals and terrors of that time, and exposes the mechanics of oppression of the communist regime.
The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Author: Tara Zahra
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-03-21
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0393285596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration.
The Meaning and Uses of Polish History
Author: Adam Bromke
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of two basic studies on East Europe, focussing on Polish problems and developments, by an eminent student of Poland and Eastern European politics and history.
Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864-1915
Author: Malte Rolf
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 082298864X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated by Cynthia Klohr After crushing the Polish Uprising in 1863–1864,Russia established a new system of administration and control. Imperial Russian Rule in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864–1915 investigates in detail the imperial bureaucracy’s highly variable relationship with Polish society over the next half century. It portrays the personnel and policies of Russian domination and describes the numerous layers of conflict and cooperation between the Tsarist officialdom and the local population. Presenting case studies of both modes of conflict and cooperation, Malte Rolf replaces the old, unambiguous “freedom-loving Poles vs. oppressive Russians” narrative with a more nuanced account and does justice to the complexity and diversity of encounters among Poles, Jews, and Russians in this contested geopolitical space. At the same time, he highlights the process of “provincializing the center,” the process by which the erosion of imperial rule in the Polish Kingdom facilitated the demise of the Romanov dynasty itself.
Poland's Memory Wars
Author: Jo Harper
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2018-10-20
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9637326553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.
The Slavonic and East European Review
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 750
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