A clean sweep?
Subtitle: the politics of ethnic cleansing in western Poland, 1945-1960
By: by T. David Curp.
Series: Rochester studies in Central Europe
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781580462389
Subjects: Forced migration -- Poland -- Western and Northern Territories; Forced migration -- Poland -- Wielkopolska; Population transfers -- Germans; Western and Northern Territories (Poland) -- Ethnic relations; Wielkopolska (Poland) -- Ethnic relations; Poland -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980; Poland -- Relations -- Germany; Germany -- Relations -- Poland
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : hearts and minds and land : ethnic cleansing and the stabilization of postwar Poland; title: How the East was lost : Germany's struggle for the Polish-German borderlands, 1870-1945; title: Who won the West : the colonists and ethnic cleansers of Poznan and eastern Brandenburg in 1945; title: Acts of sacrifice : Poland's ethnic cleansing and the end of political pluralism, 1945-47; title: Counterrevolution from above and abroad : the delocalization of politics and the beginning of Polish Stalinism's antinational counterrevolution, 1947-49; title: Waging counterrevolution : the party-state's struggle for hearts, minds, and land in Wielkopolska, 1949-53; title: Revolutions before the revolution : national solidarity and the long retreat of Stalinism in Wielkopolska, 1953-56; title: The revolutions betrayed? : the Poznan revolt and the Polish road to national socialism, 1956-60; title: Conclusion : a near run thing : from national solidarity to Solidarity.