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Subject(s)

• Greece—History [Browse]
• Poland—History [Browse]
• Greece—Relations—Poland [Browse]
• Poland—Relations—Greece [Browse]

Series

East European monographs ; no. 720. [More in this series]

Summary note

"It has been about half a century since the end of the Greek civil war (1949) and the Stalinization of Poland (1949) as well as a decade since Poland's Democratization (1990). After the fall of Communism, the hwole of Europe tends to integrate into a peaceful commonwealth. Thus Greek and Polish histories converge whereas most of the time they had diverged and went off in opposite directions. Greece was the first country to defeat communist aggression in Europe. Poland was the first Communist country to shake of Communist tyranny and set the stage for the collapse of the Soviet empire. Greece and Poland have played key roles in European history. The present cannot be comprehended without reference to the past. The extraordinary events of the 1980s-1990's provide a good opportunity for an examination and comparison of the development of Hellenism and Polonism. Poland's birth coincided with the most glorious period of Byzantium when contacts with the two states were undertaken. After the twelth century, Byzantium began to decline and fell in 1453 whereas Poland expanded and became a great empire, only to follow Byzantium's fate and disappear as a state in 1795. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, Greece and Poland reemerged as independent states which was an illustration of the dynamics and continuity of their societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 781-791).

Contents

• Introduction: Physical and Historical Setting
• Pt. I. Historic Background to 1795
• 1. Greeks and Poles on Divergent Paths
• Pt. II. Liberation Struggles to 1922
• 2. Greek and Polish Developments to 1914
• 3. World War I and Peace Settlements, 1914-1923
• Pt. III. Greek and Polish Parallel Paths, 1923-1939
• 4. Interwar Period to World War II. 1923-1940
• 5. Poland and Greece in World War 11, 1939-1945
• Pt. IV. Greece and Poland in a Polarized World, 1945-1981
• 6. Greek and Polish Rebirth Pangs, 1944-1956
• 7. Greece and Poland Through the Cycles of East-West Tension and Detente, 1953-1970
• 8. Internal-External Confusion and Change. 1967-1981
• Pt. V. Cold War's Resurrection and Death Poland's and Greece's Transformation, 1975-2000
• 9. Greeks and Poles Edging Toward Convergence, 1975-1990
• 10. Greeks and Poles on Convergent Paths, 1990-2000
• 11. Greece and Poland in an Integrating Europe, 2001-2007.

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ISBN

• 9780880336185
• 0880336188

OCLC

154711354

Other standard number

• 40016540995

RCP

C - S

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