LEADER 04055nam 22005655 450 001 9910299801103321 005 20200630010303.0 010 $a3-319-94241-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-94241-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000007158828 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5601934 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-94241-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007158828 100 $a20181119d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish Policy Towards Poland, 1944?1956 /$fby Andrea Mason 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 225 1 $aSecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World 311 $a3-319-94240-9 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Britain and the Polish Government-in-Exile, January 1944-June 1945 -- Chapter 3: From Potsdam to the Moscow Council of Foreign Ministers, July-December 1945 -- Chapter 4: The Electoral Bloc to the Polish Referendum, January-June 1946 -- Chapter 5: From the Referendum to the Elections, June 1946 - January 1947 -- Chapter 6: Miko?ajczyk?s Escape, January - November 1947 -- Chapter 7: From High Cold War to Early Détente, 1948-1956 -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War. It analyses the wartime origins of Churchill?s commitment to Poland, and assesses the reasons for the collapse of British efforts to support the leader of the Polish opposition, Stanis?aw Miko?ajczyk, in countering the attempt by the Polish communist party to establish one-party rule after the war. This examination of Anglo-Polish relations is set within the broader context of emerging early Cold War tensions. It addresses the shift in British foreign policy after 1945 towards the US, the Soviet Union and Europe, as British leaders and policymakers adjusted both to the new post-war international circumstances, and to the domestic constraints which increasingly limited British policy options. This work analyses the reasons for Ernest Bevin?s decision to disengage from Poland, helping to advance the debate on the larger question of Bevin?s vision of Britain?s place within the newly reconfigured international system. The final chapter surveys British policy towards Poland from the period of Sovietisation in the late 1940s up to the October 1956 revolution, arguing that Poland?s process of liberalisation in the mid-1950s served as the catalyst for limited British reengagement in Eastern Europe. 410 0$aSecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World 606 $aEurope?History?1492- 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717110 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 606 $aForeign Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912040 615 0$aEurope?History?1492-. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 14$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aForeign Policy. 676 $a941 700 $aMason$b Andrea$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01058610 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299801103321 996 $aBritish Policy Towards Poland, 1944?1956$92501121 997 $aUNINA