Poland

The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Abramowski.The volume is divided into five sections, each of them containing an analysis of the Polish...

It was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Günter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950423651Author Frank FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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"Fear is always experienced individually, and few experiences are as personal. There can be no collective fear without individual fear preceding it. A society's fear is born out of the convergence of individual experiences, when dozens, hundreds,...

Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them - the...

This book deconstructs the public performance of technological innovation and imagined modernity in relation to the home technologies market in late state socialist Poland. While doing so, the author sheds light on the politics that accompanied the modes...

Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human...

The signing of the Gdansk Agreements in August 1980 signaled the birth of the Solidarity independent trae union movement. The sixteen months that followed until the December 1981 declaration of martial law remain one of the most fascinating chapter in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950423644Author Maciej RogowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, an eastern borderland province that...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015342095Author Adam Jerzy Ksi CzartoryskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 499g

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In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013962745Author Adam Jerzy Ksi CzartoryskiFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 676g

Anti-Semitism in Poland has always been a deeply problematic subject. In the years since the Holocaust, much has been written about the willingness of Poles to collaborate with the Nazis, willingly handing over Polish Jews and often profiting from it in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578928159Author Imogene SalvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Imogene SalvaPublisher Imogene SalvaWeight(grams) 449g

The startling political developments within Poland since 1980 have found many commentators in the West, though few have had the means to look beneath the surface and to glimpse the depth and antiquity of the issues involved in its current predicament...

Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence...

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This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzynska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war's end in May 1945, when she was reunited with her brother, Dolek, an officer in the Polish II Corps. Bierzynska not only survived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950423989Author Lazare CoqueugnoitFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Nafziger CollectionPublisher Nafziger CollectionWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

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This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs.The models and psychological processes that the volume analyses are relevant not only to the...

This powerful memoir traces the life of Karol Modzelewski, one of the preeminent Polish dissidents of the twentieth century. With humor and perception, Modzelewski describes his formative years. Born in 1937 to a Polish-born mother and Russian-Jewish...

On 10 April 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczyński and First Lady Maria Kaczyńska were killed in an airplane crash outside the city of Smolensk in western Russia, where they were flying to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639821501Author Jaroslaw Marek RymkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Slant BooksPublisher Slant BooksWeight(grams) 340g

This book analyses right-wing memory politics in Poland through the concept of "cursed soldiers" as a key memory symbol, and how it has been used to construct a narrow and exclusionary vision of Polish identity framed in terms of Catholicism, national...

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Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the genocide was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press. This work engages with the origins of this debate and...

This volume is made up of essays in first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at the POLIN museum of the history of Polish Jews in Warsaw is divided into two sections. The first deals with museological questions-the voices of the...

In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of...