Poland 1918-1945

<p>Based on extensive range of Polish British German Jewish and Ukranian primary and secondary sources this work provides an objective appraisal of the inter-war period.</p><p>Peter Stachura demonstrates how the Republic overcame giant obstacles at home and abroad to achieve consolidation as an independent state in the early 1920s made relative economic progress created a coherent social order produced an outstanding cultural scene advanced educational opportunity and adopted constructive and even-handed policies towards its ethnic minorities.</p><p>Without denying the defeats suffered by the Republic Peter Stachura demonstrates that the fate of Poland after 1945 with the imposition of an unwanted Soviet-dominated Communist system was thoroughly undeserved.</p>