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  title info:
    title: White spots, black spots
    sub title: difficult matters in Polish-Russian relations, 1918-2008
  title info:
    title: Difficult matters in Polish-Russian relations, 1918-2008
  title info:
    title: Białe plamy--czarne plamy. English
  name:
    name part: Rotfeld, Adam Daniel.
  name:
    name part: Torkunov, A. V. (Anatoliĭ Vasilʹevich)
    name part: 1950-
  name:
    name part: Polsko-Rosyjska Grupa do Spraw Trudnych
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 666 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Poland and Russia have a long relationship that encompasses centuries of mutual antagonism, war and conquest. The twentieth century has been particularly intense, including world wars, revolution, massacres, national independence and decades of communist rule for both countries. Since the collapse of communism, historians in both countries have struggled to come to grips with this difficult legacy. This pioneering study, prepared by the officially sanctioned Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, is a comprehensive effort to document and fully disclose the major conflicts and interrelations between the two nations from 1918 to 2008, events that have often been avoided or presented with a strong political bias. This is the English translation of this major study, which has received acclaim for its Polish and Russian editions. The chapters offer parallel histories by prominent Polish and Russian scholars who recount each country's version of the event in question. Among the topics discussed are the 1920 Polish-Russian war, the origins of World War II and the notorious Hitler-Stalin pact, the infamously shrouded Katyn massacre, the communization of Poland, Cold War relations, the Solidarity movement and martial law and the renewed relations of contemporary Poland and Russia.
  table of contents: Introduction: in search of the truth : a brief history of the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters / Adam Daniel Rotfeld and Anatoly V. Torkunov -- The beginnings : Polish-Soviet relations, 1917-1921 / Daria Nałęcz and Tomasz Nałęcz (Poland), Gennady F. Matveyev (Russia) -- The interwar period : Poland and the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s / Wojciech Materski (Poland), Aleksandr V. Revyakin (Russia) -- The causes of World War II : Poland, the Soviet Union, and the crisis of the Versailles system / Sławomir Dębski (Poland), Mikhail M. Narinsky (Russia) -- Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany, 1939-1941 : the Red Army invasion and the fourth partition of Poland / Albin Głowacki (Poland), Natalia S. Lebedeva (Russia) -- The Katyn Massacre : the process of revealing the truth and commemorating the victims / Andrzej Przewoźnik (Poland), Natalia S. Lebedeva (Russia) -- World War II, 1941-1945 : politics and its consequences / Wojciech Materski (Poland), Valentina S. Parsadanova (Russia) -- The postwar decade, 1945-1955 : victory and enslavement / Włodzimierz Borodziej (Poland), Albina F. Noskova (Russia) -- The thaw : the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, the Polish October, and the struggle for autonomy / Andrzej Paczkowski (Poland), Nikolai I. Bukharin (Russia) -- The dissident movement : the way to freedom in culture / Jerzy Pomianowski (Poland), Andrei V. Vorobyov and Aleksandr V. Shubin (Russia) -- The Soviets and the Polish crisis : the road to martial law, 1980-1981 / Andrzej Paczkowski (Poland), Inessa S. Yazhborovskaya (Russia) -- Regained freedom and sovereignty : transformation processes in Poland and Russia / Włodzimierz Marciniak (Poland), Vladimir G. Baranovsky and Boris A. Shmelyov (Russia) -- Assistance or exploitation? economic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union / Janusz Kaliński (Poland), Leonid B. Vardomsky (Russia) -- Russia versus sovereign Poland : political relations between Poland and Russia s…
  note: edited by Adam Daniel Rotfeld & Anatoly V. Torkunov.
  note: Abridged translation of: Białe plamy-czarne plamy : sprawy trudne w polsko-rosyjskich stosunkach 1918-2008 / Polsko-Rosyjska Grupa do Spraw Trudnych ; pod redakcją Adama Daniela Rotfelda i Anatolija W. Torkunowa. Warszawa : PISM, 2010. Published simultaneously in Russian as: Belye pi︠a︡tna--chernye pi︠a︡tna : slozhnye voprosy v rossiĭsko-polʹskikh otnoshenii︠a︡kh. Moskva : Aspekt Press, 2010.
  note: "This abridged English edition contains mainly the summaries of the original Polish and Russian studies with the understanding that the professional readers will consult . the original editions for all notes and source information, including the chapter on bibliography that is omitted in the English edition"--Page x.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-pl---
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Poland
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Poland
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Poland
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DK4185.S65 B4513 2015
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Series in Russian and East European studies
  identifier: 9780822944409
  identifier: 0822944405
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 141213
    record change date: 20170928132849.0
    record identifier: in00003582021