Sketches from a secret war : a Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine / / Timothy Snyder

• Autore: Snyder Timothy
• Pubblicazione: New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.7/084
• Soggetto topico: Anti-communist movements - Ukraine, Western - History
• Soggetto geografico: Poland Relations Ukraine; Ukraine Ethnic relations; Ukraine History 20th century; Ukraine Relations Poland; Ukraine, Western History Autonomy and independence movements
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-336) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Prologue: Interrogations -- Introduction: Cubism and Conspiracy -- 1. Matters of Trust -- 2. Promethean Ukraine -- 3. Theaters of Politics -- 4. Spies of Winter -- 5. Stalin's Famine -- 6. The Polish Terror -- 7. A Revolution Prepared -- 8. Revindications of Souls -- 9. Glass Houses -- 10. Nazi Occupation -- 11. Conspiring Women -- 12. Communist Prison -- Epilogue: Representations -- Codes and Characters -- Abbreviations -- Archives -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyïv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles-intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Józewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during the Second World War, and conspired against Poland's Stalinists until his arrest in 1953. His personal story, important in its own right, sheds new light on the foundations of Soviet power and on the ideals of those who resisted it. By following the arc of Józewski's life, this book demonstrates that his tolerant policies toward Ukrainians in Volhynia were part of Poland's plans to roll back the communist threat.The book mines archival materials, many available only since the fall of communism, to rescue Józewski, his Polish milieu, and his Ukrainian dream from oblivion. An epilogue connects his legacy to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the democratic revolution in Ukraine in 2004.
• Altri titoli varianti: Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine
• Titolo autorizzato: Sketches from a secret war
• ISBN: 0-300-16352-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824330303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II