Contemporary Polish and World History

The subject will be concentrated on presenting the most characteristic processes and events in world's history of 20 c., and within such context, the history of Poland.

Basic:

N. Davies, God’s Playground. A History of Poland, vol. I-II, Oxford 2005

N. Davies, Europe East and West, London 2007

R.M. Watt, Bitter Glory. Poland and its Fate 1918-1939, New York 1998

Additional:

Bernard, M., Institutions and the Fate of Democracy: Germany and Poland in 20. century, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

TARAS, R., Ideology and a Social State. Poland 1956-83, Cambrigde 1984

POLAND between the wars 1918-1939. ed. P.D. Stachura, Wiltshire 1998 , St. Martin’s Press Inc.

ASCHERSON, Neal, The Struggle for Poland, 1987,

DZIEWANOWSKI M.K., Poland in the Twentieth century, New York 1977,

ZIMMERMANN J. D., Poles, Jews and the Politics of Nationality. The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia 1892-1914, University of Wisconsin Press 2004

DEBICKI R., Foreign Policy of Poland 1919-39, New York 1962

SHORE, Marci, Caviar and Ashes, A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, Yale University Press 2006

CIENCIAŁA A., KOMORNICKI T., From Versailles to Locarno. Keys to Polish Foreign Policy 1919-1925, University of Kansas Press 1984

PIENKOS A. T., The imperfect Autocrat. Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich and the Polish Congress Kingdom, Columbia University Press, New York 1987

Obligatory attendance; the student should study the missed topic by him/herself and report the results

An written essay on chosen topic, within the syllabus area, marked according the scale

The subject will be concentrated on presenting the most characteristic processes and events in world's history of 20 c., and within such context, the history of Poland.

Topics:

Introduction: the outline of 19th century Polish history

Central and Eastern Europe a. 1900

The Great War, revolutions in Russia, Germany and the Versaille system (concise)

Poland: regaining independence

The world between the wars

Poland in the mid-war period

Poland during the Second World War

The world after 1945: a brief characteristic

Poland in the communist period

The transformation: USSR, Central Europe and Poland (1988-1991)

Basic:

N. Davies, God’s Playground. A History of Poland, vol. I-II, Oxford 2005

N. Davies, Europe East and West, London 2007

R.M. Watt, Bitter Glory. Poland and its Fate 1918-1939, New York 1998

Additional:

Bernard, M., Institutions and the Fate of Democracy: Germany and Poland in 20. century, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

TARAS, R., Ideology and a Social State. Poland 1956-83, Cambrigde 1984

POLAND between the wars 1918-1939. ed. P.D. Stachura, Wiltshire 1998 , St. Martin’s Press Inc.

ASCHERSON, Neal, The Struggle for Poland, 1987,

DZIEWANOWSKI M.K., Poland in the Twentieth century, New York 1977,

ZIMMERMANN J. D., Poles, Jews and the Politics of Nationality. The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia 1892-1914, University of Wisconsin Press 2004

DEBICKI R., Foreign Policy of Poland 1919-39, New York 1962

SHORE, Marci, Caviar and Ashes, A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, Yale University Press 2006

CIENCIAŁA A., KOMORNICKI T., From Versailles to Locarno. Keys to Polish Foreign Policy 1919-1925, University of Kansas Press 1984

PIENKOS A. T., The imperfect Autocrat. Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich and the Polish Congress Kingdom, Columbia University Press, New York 1987