Bitter Legacy : Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II / Richard C. Lukas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukas, Richard C., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.

United States.

Poland--Politics and government--1945-.

Poland.

Poland--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Poland.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this most timely book, Richard C. Lukas offers the historical perspective that any reader, scholar, or layman needs to grasp the political turmoil in Poland in the decades after World War II. Bitter Legacy is the first major analysis of Polish-American relations from the Potsdam Conference through the Polish elections of 1947, the critical period during which Poland became a satellite in the Russian sphere. Drawing on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, a number of which have never been used by scholars before, Lukas shows in detail why and how American policy was never a

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I: The Road to Potsdam; Map; II: Postwar Poland; III: From Potsdam to Kielce; IV: Credits and Elections; V: Denouement; VI: Relief and Repatriation; VII: Polish Americans and the Polish Question; VIII: Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [170]-181.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813189116

081318911X

9780813150437

0813150434

OCLC:

559352689