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

THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT 407 (1909-1942). In view of the terrors of the recent past, and the horrors of the pre- sent, it was no m ...

408 PARTIA aspirations of a movement which did not gain control of its own destiny until 1956.^15 The rise of the PPR from its o ...

THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT 409 position in the politics of the so-called 'National Front', where several separate parties and allied ...

410 PARTIA autonomy at home conforms exactly to the long 'conciliatory' or 'realist' trend in Polish politics since the early ei ...

THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT 4 II three-volume survey, Gtowne nurty Marksizmu (1976—8) presented a brilliant critique of the rise and ...

412 PARTIA Italy or Spain than to those dictated by Lenin's Revolution in pre-industrial, autocratic Russia. The instinctive hos ...

23 POLSKA LUDOWA: The Polish 'People's Republic' (since 1944) In its essentials, the political history of post-war Poland is ext ...

414 POLSKA LUDOWA The formation of the PKWN reflected at the central level what was happen- ing on the local level throughout th ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 415 SS-camps became branches of the Gulag; and the concept of 'Liberation' became a mockery. As one set of ...

416 POLSKA LUDOWA In one area, in the treatment of Poland's German minority, the Polish Communist security services must have ea ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 417 The Provisional Government of National Unity (TRJN) resulted from the declaration of the Yalta Confere ...

418 POLSKA LUDOWA welcome. In the summer of 1944, and again in 1945, the Soviet Army organized squads of workers from the towns ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 419 the Lublin and Bialystok regions; and it was compromised by links to British Intelligence. Its end cam ...

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THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 421 ...

42.2 POLSKA LUDOWA persons, passing through Poland in transit, either from west to east, or from east to west. They included, in ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 423 Route C - Kalawsk-Mariental/Alversdorf 20 February 1946 Route D - Kalawsk - Friedland Date to be decid ...

424 POLSKA LUDOWA a joint decision of the victorious allies. The management of the expulsions left much to be desired, if only b ...

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 425 On the same day that the fraudulent results of the Referendum were awaited 4 July 1946 - a vicious po ...

426 POLSKA LUDOWA its way towards its goal of acting, as Gomulka put it, as 'the hegemon of the nation'.^20 After two years of p ...