| Contents |
Introduction : hearts and minds and land : ethnic cleansing and the stabilization of postwar Poland -- How the East was lost : Germany's struggle for the Polish-German borderlands, 1870-1945 -- Who won the West : the colonists and ethnic cleansers of Poznań and eastern Brandenburg in 1945 -- Acts of sacrifice : Poland's ethnic cleansing and the end of political pluralism, 1945-47 -- Counterrevolution from above and abroad : the delocalization of politics and the beginning of Polish Stalinism's antinational counterrevolution, 1947-49 -- Waging counterrevolution : the party-state's struggle for hearts, minds, and land in Wielkopolska, 1949-53 -- Revolutions before the revolution : national solidarity and the long retreat of Stalinism in Wielkopolska, 1953-56 -- The revolutions betrayed? : the Poznań revolt and the Polish road to national socialism, 1956-60 -- Conclusion : a near run thing : from national solidarity to Solidarity. |
