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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2019
      January 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108333993
      9781108424363
      9781108440127
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333993
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 528 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 526 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
      Series:
      Cambridge Concise Histories
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
    Series:
    Cambridge Concise Histories
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    Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book outlines Poland's turbulent and complex history, from its medieval Christian origins to the reassertion of that Christian and European heritage after forty-five years of communism. It describes Poland's transformation since 1989, and explains how Poland navigated its way into a new Commonwealth of Nations in the European Union. Recent years have witnessed significant changes within Poland, Eastern Europe and the wider world. This new edition reflects on these changes, and examines the current issues facing a Poland which some would accuse of being out of touch with 'European values'.

    Reviews

    '… lucid, insightful, and often witty and pithy … the authors are especially good in their dispassionate treatment of sensitive political and social issues and challenges, particularly those that have dominated recent decades. These matters include Poland’s place in Europe, the role of the Catholic Church, xenophobic and anti-Semitic traditions, and ‘the lack of confidence in many of the state’s institutions and in the rule of law, coupled with the low quality of much political debate’ (as the authors write in the final chapter). Illustrations (two new ones in this edition), maps, ruler lists, and a good English-language bibliography enhance the volume. Recommended.'

    P. W. Knoll Source: Choice

    ‘The book, which is clearly structured and extremely reader-friendly, can be recommended to anyone interested in the history of Poland, Central and Eastern Europe, and Europe as a whole.’

    Zaur Gasimov Source: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas

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