A clean sweep? the politics of ethnic cleansing in western Poland, 1945-1960 / by T. David Curp.

Author/creator Curp, T. David, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,
Descriptionx, 270 p. ; 24 cm.
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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.

SeriesRochester studies in Central Europe, 1528-4808
Contents Introduction : hearts and minds and land : ethnic cleansing and the stabilization of postwar Poland -- How the East was lost : Germany's struggle for the Polish-German borderlands, 1870-1945 -- Who won the West : the colonists and ethnic cleansers of Poznań and eastern Brandenburg in 1945 -- Acts of sacrifice : Poland's ethnic cleansing and the end of political pluralism, 1945-47 -- Counterrevolution from above and abroad : the delocalization of politics and the beginning of Polish Stalinism's antinational counterrevolution, 1947-49 -- Waging counterrevolution : the party-state's struggle for hearts, minds, and land in Wielkopolska, 1949-53 -- Revolutions before the revolution : national solidarity and the long retreat of Stalinism in Wielkopolska, 1953-56 -- The revolutions betrayed? : the Poznań revolt and the Polish road to national socialism, 1956-60 -- Conclusion : a near run thing : from national solidarity to Solidarity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.
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LCCN 2006024310
ISBN9781580462389 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1580462383 (cloth : alk. paper)