God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present

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GOD'S PLAYGROUND A History of Poland II ...

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GOD'S PLAYGROUND A History of Poland IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II 1795 TO THE PRESENT NORMAN DAVIES Columbia University Press New Yo ...

Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Copyright © 2005 Norman Davies All Rights Reserved Library of Congress ...

PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION OF VOLUME II This second volume, which takes the History of Poland from the late eighteenth century ...

vi PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF VOLUME 2 contrast, may be said to have experienced defeat in victory, in that the re- esta ...

CONTENTS Maps and Diagrams ix Illustrations xi Notes on the Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xv ...

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MAPS AND DIAGRAMS The Distribution of Nationalities (1921) D. Social Groups in Inter-war Poland - I Poland Destroyed and Rec ...

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS between pp. 296 and 297 Plate I DIPLOMACY AND DEFIANCE P. Delaroche, Frince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, 1770— ...

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NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS Volume II Plate I Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), potrait of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski in exile in Pa ...

XIV NOTES ON ILLUSTRATIONS refused to marry a German prince, and then, in order to avoid a tribal war, drowned herself in the Vi ...

ABBREVIATIONS AK AL BBWR BCh BMN BNR CAP CBKP ChD CK CKL CKO CKR COP CPSU CUP d. FJN Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Bezpartyjny Blok ...

XVI ABBREVIATIONS GG GL gr. GUKPPiW KBW KNAPP KNP KP KP KPP KPRP KRN KRP KUL KWC KWP LOT m. MO ND Generalna Gubernia Gwardia Lud ...

ABBREVIATIONS XV NIK NKL NKN NOW NPR NRL NSR NSZ NZR ORMO OWP OZON PAL PAN PAU PGR PKI PKP PKL Naczelna Izba Kontroli Naczelny K ...

ABBREVIATIONS PKO PKWN PON POP POW POWN PPR PPS PPSD PS PSL PTH PUR PZPR RGO RJN RM RPPS RPZ RTRP ssc Powszechna Kasa Oszczgdnos ...