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

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  1. The symposium, Polska Ludowa (Warsaw, 1964), edited by Cz. Madajczyk for the twen-
    tieth anniversary of the PKWN contains much factual detail but little pertinent comment
    on the central political issues.

  2. See A. Polonsky, B. Drukier eds., The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland,
    December 1943-July 1945, (London, to be published), passim.

  3. See 'Jakub Berman', in Teresa Toranska, ONI-Stalin's Polish Puppets, (London, 1987),
    203-354, 275, 321.

  4. Szwagrzyk.

  5. Alfred M. de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam (1989)

  6. John Sacks, An Eye for an Eye.

  7. Ibid., Minutes of the PPR Central Committee, 9 October 1944.

  8. J. Ciechanowski, Defeat in Victory (London, 1968); A. B. Lane, Saw Freedom Betrayed
    (London, 1949); Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, The Rape of Poland: the Pattern of Soviet
    Domination (New York, 1948); Jean Malora, La Pologne d'une occupation a I'autre,
    1944-52 (Paris, 1952).

  9. Andrzej Korbonski, The Politics of Socialist Agriculture in Poland, 1945-60 (New York,
    1964); see also H. Siabek, Dzieje polskiej reformy rolnej, 1944-8 (Warsaw, 1972).

  10. See Z. Stypulkowski, Invitation to Moscow (New York, 1962), passim.

  11. Stanislaw Kluz, W potrzasku dziejowym (London, 1978).

  12. On the civil war see W walce ze zbrojnym podziemiem, ed. M. Turlejska (Warsaw,
    1972); more specifically on UPA, A. B. Szczesniak, W. Szopa, Droga do nikqd:
    dzialalnosc OUN Ich likwidacja w Polsce (Warsaw, 1973): and the semi-fictional
    account by J. Gerhard, huny w Bieszczadach (Warsaw, 1968). The second of these vol-
    umes was withdrawn from circulation. The author of the third was murdered in myste-
    rious circumstances.

  13. S. Banasiak, 'The Settlement of the Polish Western Territories, 1945-7', Polish Western
    Affairs, vi (1965), 121-49; Krystyna Kersten, 'The Transfer of German Population from
    Poland, 1945-7', Acta Poloniae Historica, x (1964), 27-47; J. B. Schechtman, 'The
    Polish-Soviet Exchange of Population', Journal of Central European Affairs, ix (1949),
    289-314; Krystyna Kersten, Repatriacja Ludnosci polskiej po II wojnie Swiatowej
    (Warsaw, 1974).

  14. B. R. von Oppen, Documentson Germany under Occupation 1945-54, Royal Institute of
    International Affairs (London, 1955), 107—10. These published documents can now be
    supplemented by reference to the archival material recently made available at the Public
    Record Office for the period 1945-8.

  15. See S. Schimitzek, Truth or conjecture: German civilian war losses in the East, (Poznan,
    1966). For a pro-German account, see Alfred M. de Zayas, Nemesis at Potsdam: the
    Anglo Americans, and the Expulsion of the Germans: Background, Execution,
    Consequences (Revised Edition, London 1979).

  16. See note 7 above.

  17. Maria Turlejska, Zapis pierwszej dekady, 1945-54 (Warsaw, 1972), 71-3. This study,
    written by a former party activist with inside knowledge, is one of the very few of its kind
    to admit to the real problems of the era - namely, how to construct a communist gov-
    ernment without the backing of public support.

  18. See J. Pawlowicz, Strategia frontu narodowego PPR (Warsaw, 1965).

  19. A. Bregman ed., Faked Elections in Poland (London, 1947).

  20. On the destruction of the democratic opposition see Mikolajczyk op. cit.; also Karol
    Popiel, Na mogilach przyjaciol (London, 1966); Franciszek Wilk, 'Lista czlonkow PSL
    zamordowanych, 1944-64', Zeszyty Historyczne (Paris), VI (1964).

  21. For an official version of the merger of the PPS and the PPR, see B. Syzdek, Polska Partia
    Socjalistyczna, 1944-8 (Warsaw, 1974). David Klin, 'Dwudziesta rocznica likwidacji
    PPS', Zeszyty Historyczne (Paris), xv (1969), 209-12.

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