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

THE SOLIDARITY DECADE 507 maximum but where democratization was moving at a snail's pace. After much delay, Jaruzelski agreed to ...

508 SOUDARNOSC them in 1939. They had watched all the country's catastrophes from afar: the Nazi and Soviet occupations, the Com ...

25 WOLNOSC: Freedom Regained 1990-2000 The sudden, catastrophic, and peaceful collapse of an empire was something that Europe ha ...

5io WOLNOSC Comecon organization. It was referred to as TRWPG Bis; and it showed that nearly 18 months after the Fall of the Ber ...

FREEDOM REGAINED 511 shattered remnants of the defunct PZPR reformed itself as the Social Democratic Left (SLD), headed by Aleks ...

512 WOLNOSC In this way, an important opportunity was missed. A serious operation had descended into fiasco. The guilty ran free ...

FREEDOM REGAINED 513 not involved in any sort of Communist revival and was seen in Moscow as a detestable turncoat. At one point ...

514 WOLNOSC mid-90s. In 1997 the Roman Catholic Church was still opposing the constitu- tional proposals for being too secular; ...

FREEDOM REGAINED 515 strong emphasis on the primacy of culture. The Polish translation of God's Playground first appeared in a c ...

516 WOLNOSC Jewish side and which continued to deny all Jewish involvement in the murder- ous organs of Stalinist oppression. Th ...

FREEDOM REGAINED 517 not ideal, did not represent the worst scenario. As wartime resources faded, however, the argument for clin ...

518 WOLNOSC currency for eleven of the existing fifteen members inevitably complicated the preparations of would-be applicants. ...

Postscript It has often been said that historians should not meddle with the present, and that they are incapable of predicting ...

520 POSTSCRIPT the condition of most nations today and it would be idle to suppose that the countries of the Soviet bloc were so ...

POSTSCRIPT 521 more consciously 'Western' in their tastes and attitudes than did the citizens of most Western countries. Poland' ...

52.2. POSTSCRIPT historiography of the partitioning powers, had now been pressed into the ser- vice of a Soviet imperialism. The ...

POSTSCRIPT 523 More than twenty years on, the People's Republic is already fading into the distance. The longed-for 'Day of Deli ...

524 POSTSCRIPT observe its high ideals, but stands none the less as an enduring symbol of moral purpose in European life: Moral ...

NOTES CHAPTER I. NAROD i. Not surprisingly, almost all the standard western studies of Nationalism either take a hostile stance ...

526 NOTES Alojzy Felinski (1771-1820), 'Hymn na rocznic? ogloszenia Krolestwa Polskiego: z woli Naczelnego Wodza Wojsku Polskie ...