Stalinism in Poland, 1944-56: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995

ISBN-13: 9781349276820 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 163 str.

A. Kemp-Welch

Opis

Between the Nazi occupation and the anti-communist revolution of 1956, Poland underwent twelve years of Stalinist rule. Using recently-opened archives, historians and social scientists from four countries give the first analysis of the rise and fall of this system. The book is organised in three parts: Construction (external and domestic), Conflicts (above all, communists against the Church and peasantry) and Collapse (during 1956). An Epilogue reviews the whole period in the light of contemporary political debates.

Spis treści

General Editor's Introduction Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reconstructing the Past; A.Kemp-Wech PART I: CONSTRUCTION Diplomatic Prelude: Stalin, the Allies and Poland; S.Kudryashov Building the One-Party State ; A.Paczkowski PART II: CONFLICTS Polish Peasants Versus Stalinism; D.Jarosz The Terror, 1949-1954; K.Kerstein PART III: COLLAPSE Social Protest and Political Crisis in 1956; P.Machcewicz Polish Leaders and the Hungarian Revolution; J.Tischler Epilogue: Polish Communism in Contemporary Debates; A.Friszke Selected Bibliography Index

O autorze

ANDRZEJ FRISZKE Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw DARIUSZ JAROSZ Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Warsaw KRYSTYNA KERSTEN Professor of History in the Polish Aademy of Sciences, Warsaw SERGEI KUDRYASHOV Editor-in Chief of Istochnik. Dokumyeenti Russko Istorii (The Source: Documents on Russian History), Journal of the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow. PAWEL MACHCEWICZ Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw ANDRZEJ PACZKOWSKI Professor of History in the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw JANOS TISCHLER Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest