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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... People's Party (Deutsche Volkspartei: centreright party in Weimar Germany). Endecja Polish name for the rightwing, nationalist National Democratic Party and its successors in the Second Republic. Endek Polish name for a follower of the ...
... National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne: ultranationalist Polish underground resistance in the Second World War). numerus clausus A device to reduce the number of Jewish university students in the Second Polish Republic, especially ...
... national selfdetermination as the basis for a postwar peace settlement in Europe and by an equally significant Polish contribution nurtured for 123 years, following the Third, and final, Partition. That contribution comprised entrenched ...
... national independence and social revolution, by which the peasantry was to be freed from serfdom. The political price of glorious military failure was catastrophic: a Third Partition in 1795 which erased Poland from the map of Europe ...
... Polish nation, though was criticised by some as being too willing to accept the political status quo in the Russian partition. As a whole, however, there can be little doubt that 'Organic Work' was a multifaceted phenomenon which ...