Brian Porter-Szucs

Poland in the Modern World (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond Martyrdom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context * Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country's 'exceptionalism'. * Presents a lively, multi-dimensional story, balancing coverage of high politics with discussion of social, cultural and economic changes, and their effects on individuals' daily lives. * Explores both the regional diversity within Poland and the country's place within Europe and the wider world. * Provides a new interpretive framework for understanding key historical events in Poland's modern history, including the experiences of World War II and the postwar communist era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118598085
• Artikelnr.: 40343415

Autorenporträt

Brian Porter-Szücs is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (2011) and When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (2000). He is also the co-editor, with Bruce Berglund, of Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures vi Acknowledgments ix Pronunciation Guide x Introduction 1
1 Poles without Poland, 1795-1918 6 2 The Political Landscape at the Start
of the 20th Century 43 3 Nation and/or Revolution, 1914-22 65 4 The
Ambivalence of Democracy and Authority, 1922-39 90 5 Hyperinflation and
Depression: The Interwar Period 105 6 Jews, Ukrainians, and Other Poles in
the Interwar Period 126 7 World War II, 1939-45 144 8 Conquest or
Revolution? 1945-56 186 9 The Year 1956 and the Rise of National Communism
231 10 Communism and Consumerism 258 11 The End of the PRL, 1976-89 285 12
Shock Therapy 328 13 Politics in the Third Republic 348 Index 367

Rezensionen

"Well researched, engagingly written, and full of striking anecdotes, Brian Porter-Szûcs's Poland in the Modern World deserves a wide readership." (Slavic Review, 1 October 2014)