1st Edition

The Open Window into the Soviet Bloc US Policy toward Poland, 1956–1968

By Jakub Tyszkiewicz Copyright 2024
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This volume analyzes US policy toward communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and nondemocratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of US policy toward Poland from 1956 to 1968 has emerged in historiography. This book aims to answer... Read more

Introduction

PART I: An Open Window in the Iron Curtain: During the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

1. The United States and Polish October

2. The Swan Song of the Liberation

3. First PL 480 Agreement

4. Activities at the Political Level

5. Activities at the Economic Level

6. Public Diplomacy: Cultural and Scientific Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid

7. Radio Free Europe in the Eisenhower Administration’s Policy toward Poland

PART II: “Don’t Shut the Door”: During the Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

8. New Hopes and First Disappointments

9. Economic Negotiations in the Shadow of Politics

10. Other Fields of Cooperation

11. The Laborious “Bridge Building”

12. Poland in the Policy of “Bridge Building”

13. RFE and Other Propaganda Efforts

PART III: The Dilemma of Oder-Neisse Border

14. The Polish Western Border in US Considerations

Conclusion

Biography

Jakub Tyszkiewicz is a historian at the University of Wrocław, specializing primarily in US-Polish relations during the Cold War. He has been a visiting professor at many universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle as a Fulbright Scholar and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.