Author: Vincent SWICZPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Poland Still Unknown ... By V. Swicz. (Second Edition [of "Poland's Position in Central Europe." by V. S-wicz].).
Author: Vincent SWICZPoland Still Unknown
Author: Vincent SwiczPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Poland still unknown
Author: V. SwiczPoland Still Unknown
Author: Wincenty SzczęsnowiczPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Poland Still Unknown... by V. Swicz
Author: V. SwiczA Concise History of Poland
Author: Jerzy LukowskiPublisher: 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.
The Government of Poland
Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauPublisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Jozef Pilsudski
Author: Joshua D. ZimmermanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674275853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a military coup. In the story of modern Poland, no one stands taller than Jozef Pilsudski. From the age of sixteen he devoted his life to reestablishing the Polish state that had ceased to exist in 1795. Ahead of World War I, he created a clandestine military corps to fight Russia, which held most Polish territory. After the war, his dream of an independent Poland realized, he took the helm of its newly democratic political order. When he died in 1935, he was buried alongside Polish kings. Yet Pilsudski was a complicated figure. Passionately devoted to the idea of democracy, he ceded power on constitutional terms, only to retake it a few years later in a coup when he believed his opponents aimed to dismantle the democratic system. Joshua Zimmerman’s authoritative biography examines a national hero in the thick of a changing Europe, and the legacy that still divides supporters and detractors. The Poland that Pilsudski envisioned was modern, democratic, and pluralistic. Domestically, he championed equality for Jews. Internationally, he positioned Poland as a bulwark against Bolshevism. But in 1926 he seized power violently, then ruled as a strongman for nearly a decade, imprisoning opponents and eroding legislative power. In Zimmerman’s telling, Pilsudski’s faith in the young democracy was shattered after its first elected president was assassinated. Unnerved by Poles brutally turning on one another, the father of the nation came to doubt his fellow citizens’ democratic commitments and thereby betrayed his own. It is a legacy that dogs today’s Poland, caught on the tortured edge between self-government and authoritarianism.
1939
Author: Roy DouglasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349064424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
The Polish Underground, 1939–1947
Author: David G. WilliamsonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This study of the Polish resistance movement chronicles the operations of various factions from WWII through the postwar battle for power. The Polish partisan army famously fought with tenacity against the Wehrmacht during World War II. Yet the wider story of the Polish underground movement, which opposed both the Nazi and Soviet occupying powers, has rarely been told. In this concise and authoritative study, historian David Williamson presents a major reassessment of the actions, impact and legacy of Polish resistance. The Polish resistance movement sprang up after the German invasion of 1939. As the war progressed, it took many forms, including propaganda, spying, assassination, disruption, sabotage and guerrilla warfare. Many groups were involved, including isolated partisan bands, the Jewish resistance, and the Home Army which confronted the Germans in the disastrous Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Going beyond the Second World War, Williamson's graphic account chronicles the clandestine civil war between the Communists and former members of the Home Army that continued until the Communist regime took power in 1947.