Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 - Hardcover

Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739104845 ISBN 13: 9780739104842

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2004

Synopsis

Between 1939 and 1947 the county of Janów Lubelski, an agricultural area in central Poland, experienced successive occupations by Nazi Germany (1939-1944) and the Soviet Union (1944-1947). During each period the population, including the Polish majority and the Jewish, Ukrainian, and German minorities, reacted with a combination of accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. In this remarkably detailed and revealing study, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz analyzes and describes the responses of the inhabitants of occupied Janów to the policies of the ruling powers. He provides a highly useful typology of response to occupation, defining collaboration as an active relationship with the occupiers for reasons of self-interest and to the detriment of one's neighbors; resistance as passive and active opposition; and accommodation as compliance falling between the two extremes. He focuses on the ways in which these reactions influenced relations between individuals, between social classes, and between ethnic groups. Casting new light on social dynamics within occupied Poland during and after World War II, Between Nazis and Soviets yields valuable insight for scholars of conflict studies.

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About the Author

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz is research professor of history at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. From 2001 to 2003, he was assistant professor of history, Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies, at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0739104845
• ISBN 13: 9780739104842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512