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
Summary
A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland, 1945-1960' examines the long-term impact of ethnic cleansing on postwar Poland, focusing on the western Polish provinces of Poznan and Zielona Góra. Employing archival materials from multi
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index
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