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Alternative title:

George F. Kennan and the “Polish Cause” at the End of World War II

Subject and Keywords:

Kennan, George F.   Russo-German Nonagression Pact   Warsaw uprising   Polish government in-exile   Stalin   Soviet policy towards Poland   American Policy towards Poland   American embassy in Moscow

Description:

Artykuły dedykowane Profesor Marii Zmierczak z okazji jubileuszu 70. urodzin

Abstract:

The article aims at explaining why the famous American diplomatist and intriguing political thinker George F. Kennan already in 1944 considered “the Polish cause” as the “all alost cause” and did not believe in the possibility of restitution of Poland as an independent country after World War II. According to Kennan, this was determined primarily by the Russo-German Nonaggression Pact signed in August 1939. Strictly speaking, by the crimes committed on the Polish population by the Soviet police authorities in 1939–1941. Another important factor was the general expansionist nature of the Soviet regime. Even the Warsaw uprising filled with the unprecedented heroism could not change anything in Stalin’s policy towards Poland.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2017

Date copyrighted:

2017

Identifier:

ISSN 0239-6661   ISSN 2300-7249

DOI:

10.19195/2300-7249.39.2.6

Source:

PAd P 101182 II

Language:

pol   eng

Abstract Language :

pol   eng

Relation:

Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis, ISSN 0239-6661, No 3806, Studia nad Autorytaryzmem i Totalitaryzmem. 2017, 39, nr 3, s. 95-104

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Copyright by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z o.o.

Autor opisu:

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