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Revolution from abroad : the Soviet conquest of Poland's western Ukraine and western Belorussia / Jan T. Gross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Jan Tomasz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poland.
- History.
- Ukraine, Western--History--Soviet occupation, 1939-1941.
- Ukraine, Western.
- Western Ukraine.
- Belarus--History--1917-1991.
- Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland.
- Soviet Union.
- International relations.
- Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Polish.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 396 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Expanded edition / with a new preface by the author.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2002]
- 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 lucid 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.
- Contents:
- Part I Seizure
- 1 Conquest 17
- 2 Elections 71
- 3 The Paradigm of Social Control 114
- Part II Confinements
- 4 Socialization 125
- 5 Prisons 144
- 6 Deportations 187
- Epilogue: the Spoiler State 225
- Historiographical Supplement: a Tangled Web 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-381) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0691096031
- OCLC:
- 48500948
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