| Prof. Anna M. Cienciala's lectures notes in 1999 |
Chapter 6
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Eastern Europe (1944-1956) - A course dealing with the Rise and Fall of Communist Nations. The Cold War Begins. Stalinism, the Soviet-Yugoslav Break, Khruschev's Anti-Stalianism and Revolt in Eastern Europe. How these events involved Poland is discussed comparatively throughout. |
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Chapter 7
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Eastern Europe (1957-1970) - a course dealing with the Rise and Fall of Communist Nations. the full scope of the chapter is given by its formal title "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1957-1970: Politics, Economy, Foreign Policy;. The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, 1968 and Dissent in the USSR. |
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| Prof. Anna M. Cienciala's lectures notes in 2004 |
Lecture 17
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Eastern Europe (1945-1956): Pseudo-Democracy, Stalinization and Revolt - a course dealing with the history of East Central Europe. Two thirds of the webpage deals with the history of Pseudo-Democracy, Stalinization and Revolt in Eastern Europe in the years 1945-56. The remaining third with the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968. |
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Lecture 18
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Poland (1957-1980/81) - a course dealing with the history of East Central Europe. -- Toward the revolt of December 1970 and its Aftermath; Gierek''s Poland, Dec. 1970- August 1980; The Workers'' Uprising in June 1976 and its Consequences; The Committee for the Defense of Polish Workers -KOR; The Election of the Polish Pope and his visit to Poland in June 1979; The Economic Crisis; The Birth of Solidarity. |
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| From: A Brief History of Poland, a 1994 posting by the AngloPol Corporation |
Part 13
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The Post-War Years (1945-1990) |
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| The 1992 Library of Congress History: Poland, a Country Study |
Part 6
4,255 words
one map |
The Polish People's Republic - Consolidation of Communist Power; From Stalinism to the Polish October; The Gathering Crisis of People's Poland, 1956-80; The Gomulka Years; Consolidation of the Opposition in the 1970s; The Birth of Solidarity; The Jaruzelski Interlude; Martial Law; Poland at an Impasse; Collapse of the Communist Regime; Toward the Round-Table Talks; The 1989 Elections and Their Aftermath. |
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From the 1997 The History of Poland posting by Mieczyslaw Kasprzyk |
Part 5
855 words |
Post War Poland |
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Poles' Responses to the Realities of 1944-1947
columbia.edu/.../kersten.html |
6,000 words |
The reaction of the Polish people, of ethnic Poles, to the situation that Poland found itself in as the war was ending and peace beginning. Web page encompasses the reactions of both society and authorities - those in exile and in Poland, the constitutional successors of the chief statesmen of the Republic and those who were illegitimate, including the communists. |
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Stalin's Peace
victorian.fortunecity.com/.../24.htm |
6,850 words |
Chapter 24 in Oscar Halecki's History of East Central Europe: -- From Nazi Occupation to Soviet "Liberation"; Yalta; Behind the Curtain; East Central Europe and America. |
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Born from the Ashes and Blood
think-aboutit.com/.../coming2.htm |
8,220 words |
A fluent account of WWII and as it affected Poland and events in Poland in the early post war years. Written by Zbigniew Jadczyk who makes no claim to being a historian, but who was born in 1942 to a family then living in the town of Luck (now Lutsk, Ukraine) in the prewar Polish province of Wo3yn. He also makes references, in this context, to his family's experiences. |
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Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Polish October"
gwu.edu/.../b5a2.htm |
16,700 words |
An annotated discussion of the events of October 1956 in the light of five documents derived from the archives of the Central Committee of Poland's Communist Party and from Gomulka's private files. |
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Polish Secret Peace Initiatives in Vietnam
wwics.si.edu/index |
2,245 words |
Summary of a 120-page report written by Jerzy Michalowski, a senior official in the Polish Foreign Ministry at the time, regarding Polands role as an intermediary in the secret negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam in the period 1963-1966. |
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Censorship and Underground Publishing
info-poland/censorship/link.shtml |
5 links |
Strzyzewski's Black Book; Second Circulation 1976-1989 Poland; History of Polish Underground Publishing During Solidarity; Solidarity Underground; Censorship in Poland in the Twentieth Century; Publications. |
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The Death of the First Secretary
warsawvoice.pl/.../1715/ |
550 words |
Orbituary for Edward Gierek, first secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in 1970-1980. |
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Edward Gierek's Funerals
warsawvoice.pl/.../12864/ |
1,640 words |
Reflections on Gerek's rule in Poland during the 70s'. |
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The Vilification and Vindication of Colonel Kuklinski
odci.gov/.../art03.html |
9,500 words |
A CIA article regarding a colonel in the Polish Army and eventually the Polish People's Republic liason to the Soviet Army's Command, who for years acted as and agent for the CIA. With the help of the CIA he escaped to the US in 1981. Sentenced to death in absentia in 1984 he saw that sentence set aside in 1995 and in 1998 visited Poland where he was greeted by some as a hero. |
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Solidarity on the frontier of democracy in Eastern Europe
needham.k12.ma.us/.../solidarity.htm |
1,665 words |
Summary of a 120-page report written by Jerzy Michalowski, a senior official in the Polish Foreign Ministry at the time, regarding Polands role as an intermediary in the secret negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam in the period 1963-1966. |
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Use of Non-Broadcast Channels ... by ... Solidarity
gseis.ucla.edu/.../Poland-berkeley/ |
6,890 words |
Full Title: Use of Non-Broadcast Channels to Communicate Information In Social Change Situations: Berkeley Anti-Apartheid and Solidarity Poland. A discussion, based in part on the author's personal experience and observations in the Gdansk Poland Shipyards in August 1980, of the new forms of communication and more generally of the democratization of communication that the government's efforts to block communications brought about. |
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Poland on the Front Page
polandonpageone.com |
1,430 words |
Summary of a 120-page report written by Jerzy Michalowski, a senior official in the Polish Foreign Ministry at the time, regarding Polands role as an intermediary in the secret negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam in the period 1963-1966. |
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US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis: 1980 - 1981
info-poland/.../1980/link.shtml |
87,850 words |
A book of 14 chapters published in 2001 by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Center for the Study of Intelligence dealing with activities the American Intelligence Community vis a vis the threat of a Soviet invasion of Poland in 1980 and the subsequent declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981. |
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Poland, 1980-1982: Internal Crisis, International Dimensions
columbia.edu/.../jaruzels.pdf |
9 webpages |
An account of a 1997 conference in Warsaw in which numbered among its participants the principals of Solidarity Movement, the Jaruzelski Government, as well as Soviet and American decison makers. |
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Toward the Collapse of Communism, 1982-1989, and the Collapse, 1989
raven.cc.ku.edu/.../lect19.htm |
3,830 words |
Summary of a 120-page report written by Jerzy Michalowski, a senior official in the Polish Foreign Ministry at the time, regarding Polands role as an intermediary in the secret negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam in the period 1963-1966. |
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The "Great Historical Experiment" or the Demise of Real Socialism in Poland
columbia.edu/.../pacz.html |
5,150 words |
Article by Andrzej Paczkowski analyzing the circumstances and manner of the collapse of communist regimen in Poland. |
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Formal Analysis of Electoral Bargaining in Poland in 1989
econpapers.hhs.se/.../3A83-109.htm |
10,150 words |
An analysis of the agreements and events that led to the Polish elections of 1989 and the resultant loss of power by the communist regime. Subtitled How Communism Could Have Been Saved. |
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Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
isn.ethz.ch/php/ |
2,670 webpages |
A large site that provides documentation and information about the development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, their mutual threat perceptions and military plans, and their significance for our time. |
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Poland and the Soviet Union
geocities.com/.../poland.html |
6,520 words |
A history and analysis of the pressures the Soviet Union exerted on Poland in the post WWII period up to 1998 when article was originally written. |
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After the Second World War
info-poland/.../19/link.shtml |
2,480 words |
Soviet model and methods; the Party, the Church and society; Solidarity; 'State of War', 'round table' talks. |
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For Liberty's Sake
info-poland/.../overview/v.shtml |
1,720 words |
Poland: 1918-1998 -The Warsaw Voice's potted history of Europe's pounding heart. |
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An Outline History of Poland 1945-1989
cgsc.army.mil/.../Insights.htm |
615 words |
An skeleton outline of the historical period and events. |
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Under a Communist Yoke
gopoland.com/.../h7.shtml |
600 words |
Occupied again: The People's Republic; removal of crown from the Polish eagle; 'Polish United Worker's Party' (PZPR); unrest in Gdansk in 1970; Polish-born Pope John Paul II; Solidarity Trade Union. |
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From the 2006 Univ. of Warsaw Polonicum's Kwartalnik No. 1 The Invasion of Liberators
polonicum.uw.edu.pl/.../kwartalnik1.pdf |
2,270 words |
Article by Pawel Wieczorkiewicz on pp 13-17 of the Kwartalnik discusses the question how should the Red Army's advance into Poland in 1944 and its presence there till 1993 be construed: as liberation (since it brought an end to the German occupation) or invasion (since, intra alia, it imposed, for most of that period, a foreign form of government upon Poland) |
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Internet Museum of Polish People's Republic
polskaludowa.com |
47 wbepages |
An extensive website with 47 English language pages. The website numbers some 1500 pages in toto, but the authors have found it difficult to keep up in creating English versions of the Polish pages. Follow the "#4444ff" and blue highlighted links to reach the pages in English. |
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The shift from totalitarianism to democracy in Central Europe during the second half of XX century
library.thinkquest.org/11369/ |
9 chapters
15,000 words |
Stalinism in Poland; Beginning of the communist governing (1945-1956); Wladyslaw Gomulka's governing (1956-1970); Poland in Edward Gierek's hands (1971-1980); The end of PRL (1980-1989); since the fall of communism; Countries of Central Europe. A product of a Polish high-school project , the text's English is uneven. |
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Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe
crf-usa.org/.../bria19_1a.htm |
2,800 words |
An analysis of the nature of the communist take over of eight countries in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, after World War II, the resulting end of democracy, limited economic and social progress, and eventual collapse of these regimes. |
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After the Second World War
info-poland/.../19/link.shtml |
2,480 words |
Soviet model and methods; the Party, the Church and society; Solidarity; 'State of War', 'round table' talks. |
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Poland 1945-1999: Servility, Misfortune, Liberation
artsmw.org/.../paczkowski.html |
1,130 words |
Excellent essay by Adrzej Paczkowski outlining the political developments during the period of socialist rule in Poland. |
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The Years under Socialism: 1945-1989
indicates link is to a website in Polish