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Record Nr.

UNISA996248121003316

Autore

Gross Jan T (Jan Tomasz)

Titolo

Revolution from Abroad : The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition / / Jan T. Gross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ [etc.] : , : Princeton University Press, , op. 2002

©op. 2002

ISBN

1-4008-2838-4

Edizione

[[2nd] expanded ed. with a new preface by the author.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 396 p., [12] p. of plates ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

943.8053

Soggetti

Ukraine

International humanitarian law

World War II

Occupation

Soviet Union

Poland

Bezettingen

Diplomatic relations

15.70 history of Europe

World War, 1939-1945

History

Wit-Rusland

Oekraïne

Polen (land)

Sovjet-Unie

Western Ukraine

Soviet Union

Poland

Belarus

Poland Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations Poland

Belarus History 1917-1991

Ukraine, Western History Soviet occupation, 1939-1941

Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1e dr.: 1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED EDITION -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I SEIZURE -- ONE Conquest -- TWO Elections -- THREE The Paradigm of Social Control -- PART TWO. CONFINEMENTS -- FOUR Socialization -- FIVE Prisons -- SIX Deportations -- EPILOGUE The Spoiler State -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT: A TANGLED WEB -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES -- SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos that accompanied the Sovietization of this poorest section of a poverty-stricken country. Woven into the author's exploration of events from the Soviet's German-supported aggression against Poland in September of 1939 to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, these testimonies not only illuminate his conclusions about the nature of totalitarianism but also make a powerful statement of their own. Those who endured the imposition of Soviet rule and mass deportations to forced resettlement, labor camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union are here allowed to speak for themselves, and they do so with grim effectiveness.