The Sovietisation of Poland's Baltic 'Recovered Territories', 1945-1956.
Journal: ARAN (University of Galway Research Repository) (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway)
Year: 2013

This doctoral dissertation examines the Sovietisation of Poland's Baltic provinces, a region which witnessed sweeping changes regarding its borders and population as formerly German territory was incorporated into a re-constituted Polish state following the Second World War. Although under-populated and geographically peripheral, these 'Recovered Territories' were central to the raison d'être of the post-war Polish state and were to be in the vanguard of spreading communism into central Europe.