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Rebuilding Poland

Author : Padraic Kenney
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801432873
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Poland written by Padraic Kenney and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the communist takeover in Poland from the bottom up, and the first to use archives opened in 1989, Rebuilding Poland provides a radically new interpretation of the communist experience. Padraic Kenney argues that the postwar takeover was also a social revolution, in which workers expressed their hopes for dramatic social change and influenced the evolution--and eventual downfall--of the communist regime.Kenney compares Lödz, Poland's largest manufacturing center, and Wroclaw, a city rebuilt as Polish upon the ruins of wartime destruction. His account of dramatic strikes in the textile mills of Lödz shows how workers resisted the communist party's encroachment on factory terrain and its infringements of worker dignity. The contrasting absence of labor conflict among migrants in the frontier city of Wroclaw holds important clues to the nature of stalinism in Poland: communist power was strongest where workers lacked organizational ties or cultural roots. In the collective reaction of workers in Lödz and the individualism of those in Wroclaw, Kenney locates the beginnings of the end of the communist regime. Losing the battle for worker identity, the communists placed their hopes in labor competition, which ultimately left the regime hostage to a resistant work force and an overextended economy incapable of reform.

The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23

Author : Paul Latawski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349221856
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 written by Paul Latawski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 is a significant reappraisal of the political, social and economic problems associated with the rebirth of an independent Polish state. The book spans a chronological period beginning in the First World War and culminates in the de jure recognition of the last of Poland's borders in 1923. This book provides essential background for the more recent attempt to rebuild Poland in the 1990s.

The Reconstruction of Nations

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105865
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of Nations written by Timothy Snyder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet he begins with the principles of toleration that prevailed in much of early modern eastern Europe and concludes with the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989.".

Poland 1945

Author : Magdalena Grzebalkowska
Publisher : Russian and East European Stud
ISBN 13 : 9780822945994
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Poland 1945 written by Magdalena Grzebalkowska and published by Russian and East European Stud. This book was released on 2020 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official end of World War II did not mean the end of the torments inflicted on civilians. This book brings us vivid personal accounts of ordinary people in Poland--Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and others--caught up in the most violent war in history and its aftermath. No place experienced more intense suffering for a longer period of time than Poland--the first country to be invaded by both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and the last to be "liberated". This is the story of how people survived the flames of war, and began to clear the rubble and try to rebuild their lives, from January to December 1945.

Building

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Cities After Hitler

Author : Andrew Demshuk
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988577
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Three Cities After Hitler written by Andrew Demshuk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three competing post-Nazi regimes: Frankfurt in capitalist West Germany, Leipzig in communist East Germany, and Wrocław (formerly Breslau) in communist Poland. Each city was rebuilt according to two intertwined modern trends. First, certain local edifices were chosen to be resurrected as “sacred sites” to redeem the national story after Nazism. Second, these tokens of a reimagined past were staged against the hegemony of modernist architecture and planning, which wiped out much of whatever was left of the urban landscape that had survived the war. All three cities thus emerged with simplified architectural narratives, whose historically layered complexities only survived in fragments where this twofold “redemptive reconstruction” after Nazism had proven less vigorous, sometimes because local citizens took action to save and appropriate them. Transcending both the Iron Curtain and freshly homogenized nation-states, three cities under three rival regimes shared a surprisingly common history before, during, and after Hitler—in terms of both top-down planning policies and residents’ spontaneous efforts to make home out of their city as its shape shifted around them.

Rebuilding the Postwar Order

Author : Francine McKenzie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147252506X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding the Postwar Order written by Francine McKenzie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national security and to promote individual well-being in the postwar world. Rebuilding the Postwar Order explains how civil society and governments of the wartime allies conceived of peace and traces the international negotiations and conferences that later resulted in the United Nations system. It adopts a multilateral approach, connects wartime ideas to earlier peacemaking efforts, and reveals support for, as well as resistance and alternatives to, the emerging postwar order. In chapters on the United Nations, UNRRA, the IMF, World Bank and GATT, the FAO and WHO, UNESCO, and human rights, McKenzie explores the tensions between national sovereignty and international responsibility, national security and individual well-being, principles and compromises, morality and power, privilege and justice, all of which influenced the UN system.

Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

Author : John Pendlebury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317698649
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction written by John Pendlebury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history. This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period between the start of the Second World War to the mid-sixties. The various figures and currents covered here represent a largely overlooked field within the history of 20th century urbanism. In this period while certain modernist practices assumed an institutional role for post-war reconstruction and flourished into the mainstream, such practices also faced opposition and criticism leading to the production of alternative visions and strategies. Spanning from a historically-informed modernism to the increasing presence of urban conservation the contributors examine these alternative approaches to the city and its architecture.

The Builder

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poland

Author : Patrice M. Dabrowski
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757407
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Poland written by Patrice M. Dabrowski and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map for more than a century. The Polish phoenix that rose out of the ashes of World War I was obliterated by the joint Nazi-Soviet occupation that began with World War II. The postwar entity known as Poland was shaped and controlled by the Soviet Union. Yet even under these constraints, Poles persisted in their desire to wrest from their oppressors a modicum of national dignity and, ultimately, managed to achieve much more than that. Poland is a sweeping account designed to amplify major figures, moments, milestones, and turning points in Polish history. These include important battles and illustrious individuals, alliances forged by marriages and choices of religious denomination, and meditations on the likes of the Polish battle slogan "for our freedom and yours" that resounded during the Polish fight for independence in the long 19th century and echoed in the Solidarity period of the late 20th century. The experience of oppression helped Poles to endure and surmount various challenges in the 20th century, and Poland's demonstration of strength was a model for other peoples seeking to extract themselves from foreign yoke. Patrice Dabrowski's work situates Poland and the Poles within a broader European framework that locates this multiethnic and multidenominational region squarely between East and West. This illuminating chronicle will appeal to general readers, and will be of special interest to those of Polish descent who will appreciate Poland's longstanding republican experiment.

Brokers of Modernity

Author : Martin Kohlrausch
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462701725
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Brokers of Modernity written by Martin Kohlrausch and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified. Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers a pioneering study of the dynamics of modernist architects as a group, including how they became qualified, how they organized, communicated and attempted to live the modernist lifestyle themselves. In doing so, Brokers of Modernity raises questions concerning collective work in general and also invites us to examine the social role of architects today. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

God's Playground A History of Poland

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253401
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book God's Playground A History of Poland written by Norman Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.

Foreign Relations of the United States

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948: Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979

Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821441140
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979 written by Jonathan Huener and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the Polish People's Republic. Since 1945, Auschwitz has functioned as a memorial and museum. Its monuments, exhibitions, and public spaces have attracted politicians, pilgrims, and countless participants in public demonstrations and commemorative events. Jonathan Huener's study begins with the liberation of the camp and traces the history of the State Museum at Auschwitz from its origins immediately after the war until the 1980s, analyzing the landscape, exhibitions, and public events at the site. Based on extensive research and illustrated with archival photographs, Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration accounts for the development and durability of a Polish commemorative idiom at Auschwitz. Emphasis on Polish national “martyrdom” at Auschwitz, neglect of the Shoah as the most prominent element of the camp's history, political instrumentalization of the grounds and exhibitions—these were some of the more controversial aspects of the camp's postwar landscape. Professor Huener locates these and other public manifestations of memory at Auschwitz in the broad scope of Polish history, in the specific context of postwar Polish politics and culture, and against the background of Polish-Jewish relations. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration will be of interest to scholars, students, and general readers of the history of modern Poland and the Holocaust.

Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland

Author : Malgorzata Fidelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196876
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland written by Malgorzata Fidelis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malgorzata Fidelis' study of female industrial workers in postwar Poland proves that women were central to the making of communist society.

Saving Nature Under Socialism

Author : Julia E. Ault
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009020307
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Saving Nature Under Socialism written by Julia E. Ault and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s. Through an analysis of official and oppositional sources, Saving Nature Under Socialism complicates attitudes toward the environment in East Germany by tracing both domestic and transnational engagement with nature and pollution. The communist dictatorship limited opportunities for protest, so officials and activists looked abroad to countries such as Poland and West Germany for inspiration and support. Julia Ault outlines the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and shows how East Germans responded to local degradation as well as to an international moment of environmental reckoning in the 1970s and 1980s. The example of East Germany thus challenges and broadens our understanding of the 'greening' of post-war Europe, and illuminates a larger, central European understanding of connection across the Iron Curtain.