Author : Marcel Jesenský
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1137449640
The first English-language monograph on the Slovak-Polish border in 1918-47 explores the interplay of politics, diplomacy, moral principles and self-determination. This book argues that the failure to reconcile strategic objectives with territorial claims could cost a higher price than the geographical size of the disputed region would indicate.
Author : Josette Baer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 383826746X
Baer's biography of the former Czechoslovak foreign minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politician who was executed with Rudolf Slánský and other top Communist Party members after the show trial of 1952. Born in Tisovec, Central Slovakia, Clementis studied law at Charles University in Prague in the 1920s and had his own law firm in Bratislava in the 1930s. After the Munich Agreement of 1938, he went into exile to France and Great Britain, where he worked at the Czechoslovak broadcast at the BBC for the exile government of Edvard Beneš. After the Second World War, Clementis' political career at the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry blossomed. In 1945, he became Assistant Secretary of State under Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. After Masaryk's mysterious death in 1948, Clementis was appointed foreign minister. This biography offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of a Slovak leftist intellectual of the interwar generation who died at the command of the comrade he had admired since his youth: Generalissimus Stalin.
Author : Tadeusz Piotrowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0786429135
With the end of World War I, a new Republic of Poland emerged on the maps of Europe, made up of some of the territory from the first Polish Republic, including Wolyn and Wilno, and significant parts of Belarus, Upper Silesia, Eastern Galicia, and East Prussia. The resulting conglomeration of ethnic groups left many substantial minorities wanting independence. The approach of World War II provided the minorities' leaders a new opportunity in their nationalist movements, and many sided with one or the other of Poland's two enemies--the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany--in hopes of achieving their goals at the expense of Poland and its people. Based on primary and secondary sources in numerous languages (including Polish, German, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian and English), this work examines the roles of the ethnic minorities in the collapse of the Republic and in the atrocities that occurred under the occupying troops. The Polish government's response to mounting ethnic tensions in the prewar era and its conduct of the war effort are also examined.
Author : Erik Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1136328394
Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.
Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 1428915850
Author : Saul Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 4454 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780231145541
A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Lech Mróz
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Ethnology
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Author : Kevin Hannan
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the borderland that intersects the territory of the Polish, Czech, and Slovak languages. Teschen Silesia is a region of transitional language and culture that today is divided between the Czech Republic and Poland. The author examines the complex historical development of this region and describes the diachronic and synchronic development of the traditional dialect. This work explores the complex relation that links language, culture, social networks, and ethnic consciousness in a Slavic borderland.
Author : Hugo Service
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107595484
At the end of the Second World War, mass forced migration and population movement accompanied the collapse of Nazi Germany's occupation and the start of Soviet domination in East-Central Europe. Hugo Service examines the experience of Poland's new territories, exploring the Polish Communist attempt to 'cleanse' these territories in line with a nationalist vision, against the legacy of brutal wartime occupations of Central and Eastern Europe by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The expulsion of over three million Germans was intertwined with the arrival of millions of Polish settlers. Around one million German citizens were categorised as 'native Poles' and urged to adopt a Polish national identity. The most visible traces of German culture were erased. Jewish Holocaust survivors arrived and, for the most part, soon left again. Drawing on two case studies, the book exposes how these events varied by region and locality.
