The history of Poland since 1863
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The history of Poland since 1863
（Soviet and East European studies）
Cambridge University Press, 1983, c1980
1st pbk. ed., with epilogue
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is an account of the evolution of Poland from conditions of subjection to its reconstruction in 1918, development in the years between the two World Wars, and reorganisation after 1945. It begins at a time when Poland was still suffering from the legacy of the eighteenth-century Partitions and burdened with problems of sizeable ethnic minorities, inadequate agrarian reforms and sluggish industrial development sustained by foreign capital. It traces the history through to independence and then to the transformation of the country in the last thirty years. Although many of the problems of the past have now disappeared, industrialisation, the structure of peasant agriculture, and political association with the Soviet Union present the Polish People's Republic with difficulties that have yet to be resolved. Substantial achievements in an ethnically homogeneous state must be set against substantial discontents. This history provides the English-speaking reader with a scholarly synthesis based mainly on literature in Polish and other East European languages. It will be essential reading for historians of Eastern Europe and for those interested in modern Polish society.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Triloyalism and the national revival
- 2. Poland and the crisis of 1900-7
- 3. Poland on the eve of the First World War
- 4. The emergence of an independent Polish state
- 5. The breakdown of parliamentary government
- 6. Pilsudski in power, 1926-35
- 7. Poland without Pilsudski
- 8. Poland in defeat, September 1939-July 1941
- 9. The ill-fated alliance, August 1941-April 1943
- 10. The years of Tempest, May 1943-December 1944
- 11. Post-war Poland
- 12. The rise and ebb of stalinism
- 13. The October turning point
- 14. 'The little stabilization'
- 15. The decline of Gomulka
- 16. Poland under Gierek
- 17. Polish society, 1945-75
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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