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From Lublin To Gdansk: New Perspectives On Postwar Polish History

From Lublin To Gdansk: New Perspectives On Postwar Polish History LAWRENCE D. ORTON (Rochester, Mich., U.S.A.) FROM LUBLIN TO GDANSK: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POSTWAR POLISH HISTORY Andrzej Szczypiorski. The Polish Ordeal: The View from Within. Translated by Celina Wieniewska. London. Croom Helm, 1982. 154 pp. £7.95. Michael Checinski. Poland: Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism. Trans- lated in part by Tadeusz Szafar. New York: Karz-Cohl, 1982. viii, 289 pp. $22.95. Jakub Karpinski. Countdown: The Polish Upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976. 1980.... Translated by Olga Amsterdamska and Gene M. Moore. New York: Karz-Cohl, 1982, vi, 214 pp. Cloth $29.95, paper $9. 95. One thing that Western journalists assigned to cover Poland beginning in August 1980 soon discovered was that no comprehensive, up-to-date history of postwar Poland existed in any language. The general accounts in English by Hans Roos, M. K. Dziewanowski, and more recently by Z. A. Peiczynski and Norman Davies are either too brief on the period since the war or do not carry the story through the 1970s.1 To be sure, Gomulka's return to power and his subsequent subversion of the hopes of 1956 had occasioned several fine books-notably by Richard Hiscocks, Richard F. Staar, Adam Bromke, and Nicholas Bethell in English,2 Hansjakob Stehle and Harald Laeuen in German,3 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

From Lublin To Gdansk: New Perspectives On Postwar Polish History

Orton, Lawrence D.
East Central Europe , Volume 12 (2): 177 – Jan 1, 1985
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LAWRENCE D. ORTON (Rochester, Mich., U.S.A.) FROM LUBLIN TO GDANSK: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POSTWAR POLISH HISTORY Andrzej Szczypiorski. The Polish Ordeal: The View from Within. Translated by Celina Wieniewska. London. Croom Helm, 1982. 154 pp. £7.95. Michael Checinski. Poland: Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism. Trans- lated in part by Tadeusz Szafar. New York: Karz-Cohl, 1982. viii, 289 pp. $22.95. Jakub Karpinski. Countdown: The Polish Upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976. 1980.... Translated by Olga Amsterdamska and Gene M. Moore. New York: Karz-Cohl, 1982, vi, 214 pp. Cloth $29.95, paper $9. 95. One thing that Western journalists assigned to cover Poland beginning in August 1980 soon discovered was that no comprehensive, up-to-date history of postwar Poland existed in any language. The general accounts in English by Hans Roos, M. K. Dziewanowski, and more recently by Z. A. Peiczynski and Norman Davies are either too brief on the period since the war or do not carry the story through the 1970s.1 To be sure, Gomulka's return to power and his subsequent subversion of the hopes of 1956 had occasioned several fine books-notably by Richard Hiscocks, Richard F. Staar, Adam Bromke, and Nicholas Bethell in English,2 Hansjakob Stehle and Harald Laeuen in German,3

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