Rok 1945. Między wojną a podległością
The Year 1945. Between War and Dependence

Author(s): Marta Markowska
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Ośrodek KARTA
Keywords: 1945; World War II; Stanisław Mikołajczyk; PSL (Polish Peasants’ Party); PPR (Polish Workers’ Party); liberation; Red Army; Joseph Stalin; Yalta; trial of the sixteen; cursed soldiers; Home Army; Regained Territories; resettlements; communism; looting
Summary/Abstract: The year 1945 brought the end of war and finally settled Poland’s post-war shape. The voices of witnesses of those events: politicians, soldiers, but also ordinary people help us build the portrait of that dramatic time which affected Poland’s fate for the subsequent decades. It is a chronological compilation of source testimonies, which makes up a rich story of the turn of war and peace, slow development of the post-war reality, collision of hope for a normal life with the new order which was to mean the loss of independence for another half a century.

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