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A concise history of Poland

Jerzy Lukowski and Hubert Zawadzki

(Cambridge concise histories)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 456-467) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book outlines Poland's turbulent and complex history, from its medieval Christian origins to the reassertion of that Christian and European heritage after forty-five years of communism. It describes Poland's transformation since 1989, and explains how Poland navigated its way into a new Commonwealth of Nations in the European Union. Recent years have witnessed significant changes within Poland, Eastern Europe and the wider world. This new edition reflects on these changes, and examines the current issues facing a Poland which some would accuse of being out of touch with 'European values'.

Table of Contents

  • List of illustrations and maps
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Preface to the first edition
  • A note on Polish pronunciation
  • Chronology
  • Part I. Poland, to 1795: 1. Piast Poland, ?-1385
  • 2. Jagiellonian Poland, 1386-1572
  • 3. The Commonwealth of the two Nations, 1572-1795
  • Part II. Poland, after 1795: 4. Challenging the partitions, 1795-1864
  • 5. An era of transformation, 1864-1914
  • 6. Independence regained and lost, 1914-45
  • 7. Communism and the Cold War, 1945-89
  • 8. A new republic, 1989-
  • Geneaological charts of Polish rulers
  • List of heads of state, presidents, Communist Party leaders (1918-2018)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BC04863765
  • ISBN
    • 9781108440127
  • LCCN
    2018037314
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xliv, 487 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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