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Author : British Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783835342699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Ends of War written by Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maciej Górny
Publisher : Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History
ISBN 13 : 9783631645123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Nation Should Come First written by Maciej Górny and published by Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough analysis of Marxist-Leninist historiographies in East Central Europe. It covers the period of Stalinism, from the late 1940s up to the early 1960s. The author's main interest lies in the Marxists' attitudes towards the traditions of German, Polish, Czech, and Slovak national movements and historiographies.
Author : Keith Lowe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250015049
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Savage Continent written by Keith Lowe and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparking murders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places – particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France – they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. Savage Continent is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.
Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143125974
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Year Zero written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it. In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective. A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience. A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece.
Author : Alexander von Plato
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459903
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Slaves written by Alexander von Plato and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were ‘rented out’ or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Polish Western Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena V. Baraban
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442662646
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Fighting Words and Images written by Elena V. Baraban and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigourous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations.
Author : Bohdan Gruchaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Polish Western Territories written by Bohdan Gruchaman and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Krystyna Kersten
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520062191
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948 written by Krystyna Kersten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index. Bibliography: p.489-498.
Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639116979
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (169 download)
Download or read book History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness written by Lucian Boia and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Boia's innovative analysis identifies several key mythical configurations and shows how Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.
Author : Monika Baár
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199581185
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Historians and Nationalism written by Monika Baár and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monika Baár examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the 19th century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.
Author : Michael Meng
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062817
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Shattered Spaces written by Michael Meng and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years? In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite protests from Jewish leaders. But in the late 1970s church groups, local residents, political dissidents, and tourists demanded the preservation of the few ruins still standing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, this desire to preserve and restore has grown stronger. In one of the most striking and little-studied shifts in postwar European history, the traces of a long-neglected Jewish past have gradually been recovered, thanks to the rise of heritage tourism, nostalgia for ruins, international discussions about the Holocaust, and a pervasive longing for cosmopolitanism in a globalizing world. Examining this transformation from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Michael Meng finds no divided memory along West-East lines, but rather a shared memory of tensions and paradoxes that crosses borders throughout Central Europe. His narrative reveals the changing dynamics of the local and the transnational, as Germans, Poles, Americans, and Israelis confront a built environment that is inevitably altered with the passage of time. Shattered Spaces exemplifies urban history at its best, uncovering a surprising and moving postwar story of broad contemporary interest.
Author : Karin Friedrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521027755
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Other Prussia written by Karin Friedrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia', part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793.
Author : Jerzy Kloczowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521364294
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (642 download)
Download or read book A History of Polish Christianity written by Jerzy Kloczowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a single-volume history of Christianity in Poland, a subject at the core of religious history and European secular history alike. The book covers the development of Polish Christianity from the tenth century to the year 2000, placing it in the broader context of East-Central European political, social, religious and cultural history. Jewish-Christian relations, and the problematic religious history of the Jews in the region, play an important part in the story, and there are pervasive references to countries historically linked to Poland, such as Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukraine. Jerzy Kloczowski shows how the history of Poland, and Polish Christianity, are embedded in the complex systems of relations with other countries and religious denominations. A History of Polish Christianity should be read by anyone interested in the confrontation between Christianity and the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, and in the interplay between Eastern and Western Christianity.
Author : Gabriele Rippl
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442646012
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Haunted Narratives written by Gabriele Rippl and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of cultural trauma; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture.
Author : M. Perrie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919690
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia written by M. Perrie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan IV, the sixteenth-century Russian tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's campaign for patriotism. In addition to historians' images of Ivan, the author examines literary and artistic representations, including Sergei Eisenstein's famous film, banned for its depiction of the tsar which was interpreted as an allegorical criticism of Stalin.
