Collected Essays on War, Holocaust and the Crisis of Communism

The author undertakes an intellectual journey into the hidden past of the Polish history after 1939. He deals with Holocaust, collaboration, totalitarian rule, crisis of communism in Eastern Europe as well as Polish-Jewish relations during the war. The author is a founding father of a new approach in Holocaust research in Poland.

Autorentext

Jan Tomasz Gross is Professor of History at Princeton University (USA). He is the author of the extensively discussed books Neighbors, Fear, and Revolution from Abroad. His research interests are comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust.

Inhalt

Contents: Totalitarianism Polish-Jewish relations during the war Collaboration Crisis of communism Themes for a Social History of War Experience and Collaboration Polish-Jewish relations during the war Jewish Community in the Soviet Annexed Territories on the Eve of the Holocaust Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors: a Norm or an Exception in German Occupied Europe? Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation.