Research Catalog

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, c2002.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 396 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., 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."--Jacket

Subject

• Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
• Pariser Friedenskonferenz 1919-1920 Paris Polish Delegation
• Geschichte 1939-1941
• 1917-1991
• 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 > History > Occupation, 1939-1945
• Poland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• Ukraine, Western > History > Soviet occupation, 1939-1941
• Belarus > History > 1917-1991
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Poland
• Poland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union

Genre/Form

• History
• Personal narratives – Polish
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-381) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Seizure -- Conquest -- Elections -- The Paradigm of Social Control -- Confinements -- Socialization -- Prisons -- Deportations -- Epilogue: the Spoiler State -- Historiographical Supplement: a Tangled Web.

ISBN

0691096031 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001058838

OCLC

• 48500948
• SCSB-12177038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library