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

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 387 Map 21. The USSR's Recovered Territories, since 1945 ...

388 GRANICE The Lithuanians, in particular, must often have shaken their heads in dismay. In the inter-war period, their sorry o ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 389 forces.^35 In any case, Petlura's necessary recognition of Polish claims to the western Ukraine ...

390 GRANICE Ukrainian SSR, as in the classrooms of the Ukrainian Emigration, children were still told that the Poles who once ru ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 391 rival ambitions in Galicia, Pantaleimon Kulish was writing of the 'abominable duel and the bedev ...

392 GRANICE ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 393 and Leuthen (Lutynia, 1757); and above all, to Frederick's great defeats at Gross Jagersdorf (17 ...

394 GRANICE claim Christian von Kleist (1715-59), the Prussian soldier and poet, killed at Kiinersdorf; Metschkau (Mieczkow) in ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 395 university took second place only to Berlin, produced name after name of inter- national distinc ...

396 GRANICE In a cool and gentle valley The mill-wheel still is turning. But my sweetheart has departed, And will not be returni ...

THE MODERN POLISH FRONTIERS 397 could write about Poland in the sentimental tones of his nineteenth-century pre- decessors. But ...

398 GRANICE It's nothing but the minds of men, That keeps the World apart from Heaven. To scorn a laurel wreath is surely noble. ...

Part Two CONTEMPORARY POLAND SINCE 1944 ...

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22 PARTIA: The Communist Movement It is often said that the Polish Communist movement had few native roots. It can be regarded a ...

402 PARTIA Rising, made a point of emphasizing its anti-patriotic stand. In a letter circu- lated to socialist leaders abroad, i ...

THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT 403 founded in Wilno in 1897, was closely aligned with the Russian Social Democrats, and opposed by the m ...

4°4 PARTIA Guard were suppressed by the Polish Army. The KPRP's peak trade union mem- bership of 77,000 in 1919, compared to the ...

THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT 405 Popular Front against the Sanacja regime. In the USSR, where many of the lead- ers resided, their fai ...

406 PARTIA The trauma of the Polish Communists between 1938 and 1942 must surely arouse the compassion of their bitterest enemie ...