Author: General Consulate of the Republic of PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Interesting Facts about the Republic of Poland ...
Author: General Consulate of the Republic of PolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
A Republic of Nobles
Author: J. K. FedorowiczPublisher: 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.
Poland, 1918-1945
Author: Peter D. StachuraPublisher: 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
The Polish People's Republic
Author: James F. MorrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Spring Will Be Ours
Author: Andrzej PaczkowskiPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047539
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Spring Will Be Ours focuses on the turbulent half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which started the chain of events that would lead to the communist takeover of Poland, to 1989, when futile attempts to reform the communist system gave way to its total transformation. Andrzej Paczkowski shows how the communists captured and consolidated power, describes their use of terror and propaganda, and illuminates the changes that took place within the governing elite. He also documents the political opposition to the regime - both inside Poland and abroad - that resulted in upheavals in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, and 1980. His narrative makes evident the pressures that the elite felt from above, from Moscow, and from below, from the population and from within the party. The history of Poland and the Poles is of special interest because on numerous occasions in the twentieth century this relatively small country influenced developments on a global scale.
A 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.
Reassessing Communism
Author: Katarzyna ChmielewskaPublisher: 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.
The Constitution of The Republic Of Poland
Author: The Republic of PolandPublisher: The Republic of Poland
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Constitution of The Republic Of Poland Of 2nd April, 1997. As published in Dziennik Ustaw No. 78, item 483. Also available here: http://www.sejm.gov.pl/prawo/konst/konst.htm (Sejm) in Polish, English, French, German, and Russian. I am not the author of this content, I merely created an Epub from the content of the link above, made available for free by The Republic of Poland. The reason why I made this available here as epub format is to make free information easily available in a convenient way for anyone who might be interested.
Constitution of the Republic of Poland (April 23rd 1935)
Author: PolandConstitution of the Republic of Poland. [April 23rd, 1935].
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Author: Poland. Constitution, 1935Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description