Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second RepublicRoutledge, 17. 6. 2004 - 240 strán (strany) Based on extensive range of Polish, British, German, Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources, this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period. Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and abroad to achieve consolidation as an independent state in the early 1920s, made relative economic progress, created a coherent social order, produced an outstanding cultural scene, advanced educational opportunity, and adopted constructive and even-handed policies towards its ethnic minorities. Without denying the defeats suffered by the Republic, Peter Stachura demonstrates that the fate of Poland after 1945, with the imposition of an unwanted, Soviet-dominated Communist system, was thoroughly undeserved. |
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... the Second Republic Peter Stachura. In memory of Henryk Stachura (1920–1939) who fell in defence of the Second Republic on the last day of the Polish–German War ABBREVIATIONS AND GLOSSARY AK Home Army (Armia Krajowa: the principal.
... Army (Armia Krajowa: the principal wartime Polish resistance). AL People's Army (Armia Ludowa: Polish Communist, 1944–5). Apparatchik Member of the Communist Party Establishment. Ausgleich 'Compromise' between the Habsburgs and the ...
... Polish underground resistance in the Second World War). numerus clausus A device to reduce the number of Jewish university students in the Second Polish ... Army, 1918–34 (when changed to Wehrmacht). Sanacja Name of the Polish regime 1926–39 ...
... Military Organisation. Völkisch Racistnationalist (extreme element of German nationalism). Wehrmacht German armed forces in the Third Reich (invariably used specifically to mean the army). Weltanschauung Philosophical/ideological ...
... army, the national minorities and foreign policy.3 Almost all other accounts echoed a similar appraisal for a long time. The beginnings of a noteworthy departure from this pessimistic school of thought could be detected in Poland during ...