CfP: Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema
Deadline: April 30, 2018. International Conference Geneva, 13-14 December 2018 Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and...
The Culmination of Conflict
Stephen Rapawy The Culmination of Conflict: The Ukrainian-Polish Civil War and the Expulsion of Ukrainians After the Second World War As Germany fought the Soviet Union during World War II, a much smaller but equally vicious struggle was unfolding in southeastern Poland, fueled by longstanding ethnic and territorial conflicts between Poles and Ukrainians. Both sides organized large partisan armies and sought control over territory...
Elusive Alliance
Jesse Kauffman Elusive Alliance The German Occupation of Poland in World War I As World War I dragged on into 1915, German armies along the Western Front settled into stalemate with entrenched British and French forces. But in the East the picture was quite different. The Kaiser’s army routed the Russians, took possession of Polish territory, and attempted to create a Polish satellite state. Elusive Alliance delves into Germany’s...
Poland The First Thousand Years
Patrice M. Dabrowski Poland. The First Thousand Years “The book is very readable and fluidly written. The action flows gracefully from one setting to another with appropriate transitions and cues along the way. Dabrowski’s presentation contributes fresh interpretations of events in several important respects.”—Keely Stauter-Halsted, University of Illinois at Chicago “Dabrowski provides an engaging and reliable overview of over ten...
Washington History Seminar
Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the Moderates who Ended the Cold War Monday, October 20, 2014 4:00pm – 5:30pm Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom Speaker Gregory F. Domber Triumphalist accounts of the end of the Cold War point to Poland as a central example of the Reagan administration’s successful strategy to undermine Communist power. Based on significant new international research, Domber...
