Author: Peter D. Stachura
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history
Poland, 1918-1945
Author: Peter D. Stachura
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415343589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Poland, 1918-1945 is a challenging, revisionist analysis and interpretation, supported by documentary evidence, of a crucial and controversial period in Poland's recent history
A Republic of Nobles
Author: J. K. Fedorowicz
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521240932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Poland continues to be a puzzle for the West, partly because its history remains unfamiliar. Recently, however, the country has produced a number of excellent historians whose work is highly esteemed by specialists but has not yet penetrated to the general reader. The present collection of studies by thirteen of Poland's leading historians will acquaint the layman with the basic issues of Poland's historical evolution, and offer specialists radical reinterpretations of some of those issues. It is intended both as an overview of recent trends in Polish historiography and as a summary of Polish history from its origins to the mid-nineteenth century. Historically, Poland represented the great exception to the emergence of centralized bureaucracy in Europe. The Polish Commonwealth became a fully elective monarchy which extended the franchise and citizenship rights to almost 10 per cent of its population, thereby making the state a unique example of gentry democracy. The nobility played a role in Polish history unlike that of any comparable class everywhere in Europe, and this unique phenomenon serves as a thread unifying the various themes in these studies of a 'republic of nobles.' -- from dust jacket.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521240932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Poland continues to be a puzzle for the West, partly because its history remains unfamiliar. Recently, however, the country has produced a number of excellent historians whose work is highly esteemed by specialists but has not yet penetrated to the general reader. The present collection of studies by thirteen of Poland's leading historians will acquaint the layman with the basic issues of Poland's historical evolution, and offer specialists radical reinterpretations of some of those issues. It is intended both as an overview of recent trends in Polish historiography and as a summary of Polish history from its origins to the mid-nineteenth century. Historically, Poland represented the great exception to the emergence of centralized bureaucracy in Europe. The Polish Commonwealth became a fully elective monarchy which extended the franchise and citizenship rights to almost 10 per cent of its population, thereby making the state a unique example of gentry democracy. The nobility played a role in Polish history unlike that of any comparable class everywhere in Europe, and this unique phenomenon serves as a thread unifying the various themes in these studies of a 'republic of nobles.' -- from dust jacket.
"Emblem of Good Will"
Author: Zbigniew Kantorosinski
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autograph albums
Languages : pl
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autograph albums
Languages : pl
Pages : 28
Book Description
Constitution of the Republic of Poland (official Journal of Laws, No. 30, 24 April 1935)
Author: Poland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Polish People's Republic
Author: James F. Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
White Book on National Security of the Republic of Poland
Author: Stanisław Koziej
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Reassessing Communism
Author: Katarzyna Chmielewska
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633863791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The 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.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633863791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The 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
ISBN: 052185332X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history from medieval times to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185332X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
An updated and expanded second edition covering Polish history from medieval times to the present day.
A Concise History of Poland
Author: Jerzy Lukowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107782651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989–2005. This period marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004. Poland's history has been marked by its resilience. Once a dominant force in central and eastern Europe and home to a remarkable experiment in consensual politics, it was excised from the map by its neighbours in 1795. Resurrected in 1918, partitioned afresh during the Second World War, it survived to become a satellite of the Soviet Union. Yet in the 1980s, it was Poland which blazed the trail in casting off communism, and was finally able to reassert its Christian heritage. With its updated bibliography and new chronology, the book is the ideal companion for all looking for a comprehensive survey of this fascinating country.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107782651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989–2005. This period marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004. Poland's history has been marked by its resilience. Once a dominant force in central and eastern Europe and home to a remarkable experiment in consensual politics, it was excised from the map by its neighbours in 1795. Resurrected in 1918, partitioned afresh during the Second World War, it survived to become a satellite of the Soviet Union. Yet in the 1980s, it was Poland which blazed the trail in casting off communism, and was finally able to reassert its Christian heritage. With its updated bibliography and new chronology, the book is the ideal companion for all looking for a comprehensive survey of this fascinating country.
Constitution of the Republic of Poland (April 23rd 1935)
Author: Poland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description