| Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 Contributor(s): Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739104845 ISBN-13: 9780739104842 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $162.36 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2004 Annotation: Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Jan-w Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-44) and the Soviet Union (1944-47). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Jan-w to the policies of the ruling powers. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 943.805 |
| LCCN: 2003015487 |
| Physical Information: 1.71" H x 6.24" W x 9.2" (1.93 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Polish - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Jan w Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Jan w to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies. |