Revolution from Abroad The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition / Jan T. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Jan T. (Jan Tomasz)

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.

World War, 1939-1945.

Western Ukraine.

Soviet Union.

Poland.

Belarus.

Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland.

Belarus--History--1917-1991.

Ukraine, Western--History--Soviet occupation, 1939-1941.

Ukraine, Western.

Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 396 p., [12] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

[2nd] expanded ed. with a new preface by the author.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ [etc.] : Princeton University Press, op. 2002.

Language Note:

English

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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED EDITION

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART I SEIZURE

ONE Conquest

TWO Elections

THREE The Paradigm of Social Control

PART TWO. CONFINEMENTS

FOUR Socialization

FIVE Prisons

SIX Deportations

EPILOGUE The Spoiler State

HISTORIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT: A TANGLED WEB

ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES

SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

1e dr.: 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-319) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400828388

1400828384

OCLC:

1247661951