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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... partitionist powers, who regarded this sequence of developments in Poland as an intolerable revolutionary challenge to the entire old order in Europe. They acted accordingly. Russia took the lead in declaring war, with the avowed aim of ...
... partitionist powers retained, of course, a strong presence in the Polish lands. Poland provides a clear example of a European country which responded enthusiastically to the clarion call of the French Revolution for liberation from ...
... partitionist powers. During the twenty years or so after the 1863 Rising, therefore, impressive advances were recorded in the main spheres of 'Organic Work', so that a genuine sense of Polishness was kept alive and even extended to more ...
... partitionist powers over Poland, while only the most modest of gains and concessions for Poles had been recorded by Polish deputies in the Duma, the German Reichstag and the Austrian Reichsrat. Moreover, both the nationalist and ...
... partitionist powers had from the beginning of the conflict sought the support of their respective Polish subjects by making vague, hastily conceived promises of autonomy or quasiindependence. A striking example was the German and ...