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Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic

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Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic This is a book about Poland no question about it. Yet the same facts that Norman Davies the dean of a magnums opus on Poland is contradicted by Peter Stachura.
He truly blames the minorities for what happened in interwar Poland and in fact this is not so.
Poland became a nation of three dismembered parts and there was no way to make a parliament that would work with people who came trained with different view and different ways of making laws from the three partitions. Se J. jedruch's book about this aspect.
Stachura specially blames the Jews, but the Jews did not rebel like the Ukrainians in the 1930's making bombs. The Jews knew that they have lived in Poland for close to 800 years peaceful more than in other countries. There is a book called "When Poland began to Hate" and it is all tied with the nationalists and Roman Dmowski. It is the latter that slowly but surely infiltrated antisemitism into politics to a point of no return although he never held a seat in government during interwar Poland.

He has an example of the newspaper Neaz Prezlegad in which Jews are asking for their constitutional rights. Of course, they should when this was written Pilsudski was dead and they were attacking Jews in earnest. Stachura gives this as an example of an action against the state. NO so.

Stachura is supporter of Roman Dmowski, and he is entitled to his opinions, but that is not history. A very slanted view which is in accord with all his other books written about Poland.

Rachel

Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic This is a book about Poland no question about it. Yet the same facts that Norman Davies the dean of a magnums opus on Poland is contradicted by Peter Stachura.
He truly blames the minorities for what happened in interwar Poland and in fact this is not so.
Poland became a nation of three dismembered parts and there was no way to make a parliament that would work with people who came trained with different view and different ways of making laws from the three partitions. See J. jedruch's book about this aspect.
Stachura specially blames the Jews, but the Jews did not rebel like the Ukrainians in the 1930's making bombs. The Jews knew that they have lived in Poland for close to 800 years peacefully more than in other countries. There is a book called "When Poland began to Hate" and it is all tied with the nationalists and Roman Dmowski. It is the latter that slowly but surely infiltrated antisemitism into politics to a point of no return although he never held a seat in government during interwar Poland.
Stachura has an example of the newspaper Neaz Prezlegad in which Jews are asking for their constitutional rights. Of course, they should when this was written Pilsudski was dead and they were attacking Jews in earnest. Stachura gives this as an example of an action against the state. NO so.
Stachura is supporter of Roman Dmowski, and he is entitled to his opinions, but that is not history. A very slanted view which is in accord with all his other books written about Poland.

Rachel