British Policy Towards Poland, 1944-1956

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Beschreibung

This book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War. It analyses the wartime origins of Churchill¿s commitment to Poland, and assesses the reasons for the collapse of British efforts to support the leader of the Polish opposition, Stanis¿aw Miköajczyk, in countering the attempt by the Polish communist party to establish one-party rule after the war. This examination of Anglo-Polish relations is set within the broader context of emerging early Cold War tensions. It addresses the shift in British foreign policy after 1945 towards the US, the Soviet Union and Europe, as British leaders and policymakers adjusted both to the new post-war international circumstances, and to the domestic constraints which increasingly limited British policy options. This work analyses the reasons for Ernest Bevin¿s decision to disengage from Poland, helping to advance the debate on the larger question of Bevin¿s vision of Britain¿s place within the newly reconfigured international system. The final chapter surveys British policy towards Poland from the period of Sovietisation in the late 1940s up to the October 1956 revolution, arguing that Poland¿s process of liberalisation in the mid-1950s served as the catalyst for limited British reengagement in Eastern Europe.

Über den Autor

Andrea Mason is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Challenges prevailing interpretations of the British approach to the Polish question, arguing that British policymakers continued to feel themselves indebted to the Polish opposition even as their power to influence the shape of post-war Poland diminished

Offers the only full analysis of British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin's policy towards Poland

Explores the considerable continuity between the wartime and post-war years, rather than treating the war as a discrete period

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Britain and the Polish Government-in-Exile, January 1944-June 1945.- Chapter 3: From Potsdam to the Moscow Council of Foreign Ministers, July-December 1945.- Chapter 4: The Electoral Bloc to the Polish Referendum, January-June 1946.- Chapter 5: From the Referendum to the Elections, June 1946 - January 1947.- Chapter 6: Miköajczyk's Escape, January - November 1947.- Chapter 7: From High Cold War to Early Détente, 1948-1956.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geisteswissenschaften , Geschichte , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiii 232 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319942407
ISBN-10:	3319942409
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-94240-7
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Mason, Andrea
Auflage:	1st edition 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrea Mason
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2018
Gewicht:	0,438 kg

Artikel-ID: 113768078