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The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland: December 1943–June 1945 book cover

1st Edition

The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland December 1943–June 1945

Edited By Antony Polonsky, Boleslaw Drukier Copyright 1980
474 Pages
by Routledge

This study, originally published in 1980, was based on previously unavailable documents brought to the West in 1972. It provides a detailed account of the problems faced by a communist party taking power in a country in which it was opposed by the majority of the population. The eighteen months covered in this book were crucial for the establishment of communist rule in Poland. They saw the... Read more

Introduction: The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland. List of Pseudonyms. Biographical List. Documents. Part 1: From the Establishment of the National Council for the Homeland (KRN) to the Creation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) (January–20 July 1944) Part 2: From the Creation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) to the setting up of the Polish Provisional Government (22 July–31 December 1944) Part 3: The Polish Provisional Government (January–June 1945).

Biography

Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of Global Education Outreach Project of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976), co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004).

His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Liverpool University Press, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014), which has been translated into French, Polish and Lithuanian.

Boleslaw Drukier (1913–2006) was a Polish educator, historian of the workers' movement and communist activist.

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