Concise History of Poland

Name: Concise History of Poland
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ISBN: 9780521618571

ISBN-10: 0521618576

ISBN-13: 9780521618571

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki, W. H. Zawadzki

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The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989 2005. This period marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004. Poland's history has been marked by its resilience. Once a dominant force in central and eastern Europe and home to a remarkable experiment in consensual politics, it was excised from the map by its neighbours in 1795. Resurrected in 1918, partitioned afresh during the Second World War, it survived to become a satellite of the Soviet Union. Yet in the 1980s, it was Poland which blazed the trail in casting off communism, and was…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface to the second edition


Preface to the first edition


A note on Polish pronunciation


Chronology



Poland, to 1795



Piast Poland, ?-1385



Jagiellonian Poland, 1386-1572



The Commonwealth of the Two Nations, 1572-1795



Poland, After 1795



Challenging the Partitions, 1795-1864



An Era of Transformation, 1864-1914



Independence Regained and Lost, 1914-1945



Communism and the Cold War, 1945-1989



A New Republic, 1989-


Genealogical charts of Polish rulers



The Piast dynasty



The Jagiellonian dynasty



Elective rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth



Rulers of the partitioned Polish territories


List of heads of state, presidents, Communist Party leaders (1918-2005)


Bibliography


Index