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A history of Poland /

This edition includes an afterword bringing the sequence of events in Poland up to date from the period of martial law through the "grand failure" of communism and Lech Walesa's inauguration as President.

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Main Authors: Halecki, Oskar, 1891-1973, (Author), Polonsky, Antony, (Author), Gromada, Thaddeus V., 1929- (Author)
Contributors: Halecki, Oskar, 1891-1973.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1993.
Edition:New edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Poland > History.
Poland.
Poland > History
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1.
  • The formation of the state and of the nation
  • Early origins
  • The first kings
  • The disintegration of the Kingdom
  • The German colonization and the Mongol Invasion
  • The reconstruction of the Kingdom
  • Casimir the Great
  • pt. 2.
  • The centuries of Poland's greatness
  • Jadwiga of Anjou
  • Grunwald and Horodlo
  • Varna and Danzig
  • The zenith of a dynasty
  • The epoch of the First Congress of Vienna
  • The Union of Lublin
  • pt. 3.
  • The experiment of the Royal Republic
  • John Zamoyski
  • The last great designs
  • The deluge
  • John Sobieski
  • The decay
  • The regeneration
  • The partitions
  • pt. 4.
  • The ordeal
  • Napoleonic Poland
  • Romantic Poland: the insurrections
  • Romantic Poland: her poets
  • Organic work
  • Waiting for freedom
  • pt. 5.
  • New Poland's tragedy
  • Resurrection
  • Reconstruction
  • Destruction
  • Ten years of trial
  • The rise and fall of Gomulka
  • Poland under Gierek: the failure of consumer Communism
  • From Kania to Jaruzelski
  • pt. 6.
  • Toward the "grand failure" of Communism in Poland
  • Poland under Jaruzelski
  • Gorbachev's impact
  • Post-Communist Poland: Mazowiecki's government
  • Postscript.

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