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Revolution from abroad : the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorussia

Title
Revolution from abroad : the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorussia / Jan T. Gross.
Author
Gross, Jan Tomasz.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description
xxiv, 396 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  • "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Polish
  • Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945
  • Ukraine, Western > History > Soviet occupation, 1939-1941
  • Belarus > History > 1917-1991
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Poland
  • Poland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
  • Ukraine, Western > History > Soviet occuptation, 1939-1941
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-381) and indexes.
Contents
Pt. I. Seizure. 1. Conquest. 2. Elections. 3. The Paradigm of Social Control -- Pt. II. Confinements. 4. Socialization. 5. Prisons. 6. Deportations. Epilogue: The Spoiler State -- Historiographical Supplement: A Tangled Web.
ISBN
0691096031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001058838
OCLC
  • ocm48500948
  • SCSB-14075068
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries