Название: Poland: The First Thousand Years
Автор: Patrice M. Dabrowski
Издательство: Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 087580487X
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 509
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 38,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the map for more than a century. The Polish phoenix that rose out of the ashes of World War I was obliterated by the joint Nazi-Soviet occupation that began with World War II. The postwar entity known as Poland was shaped and controlled by the Soviet Union. Yet even under these constraints, Poles persisted in their desire to wrest from their oppressors a modicum of national dignity and, ultimately, managed to achieve much more than that.