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Dec 20, 2017 · In this thick monograph, John J. Kulczycki has found a new vantage point from which to study ethno-nationalism and its twentieth-century consequences in the German-Polish borderlands: the process, or more precisely ‘the process of selecting who belongs and who does not’ (p. 4).
- Sarah A Cramsey
- 2017
JOHN J. KULCZYCKI (Chicago, USA) THE SOVIET UNION, POLISH COMMUNISTS, AND THE CREATION OF A POLISH NATION-STATE The Polish state that existed before World War II, like its eighteenth century antecedent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, had a multi-ethnic population. No less than a third of interwar Poland's inhabitants were ethni cally non ...
Mar 28, 2016 · Belonging to the Nation. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939–1951. John J. Kulczycki. Hardcover. eBook. ISBN 9780674659780. Publication date: 03/28/2016. Request exam copy. When the Nazis annexed western Poland in 1939, they quickly set about identifying Polish citizens of German origin and granting them the ...
Oct 3, 2017 · John J. Kulczycki’s Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1939–1951, is concerned with the Polish-German borderlands during a period of dramatic political and demographic change. It offers a detailed account of how the two, consecutive regimes of Nazi Germany and Communist Poland, both of which expanded their territories into the German-Polish ...
- Gregor Thum
- 2017
John J. Kulczycki, Belonging to the Nation: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish- German Borderlands 1939–1951 (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2016), 402 pp., bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-674-65978-0. The effort of different states and nationalist movements in the mid-twentieth
Mar 28, 2016 · John J. Kulczycki Harvard University Press , Mar 28, 2016 - History - 414 pages When the Nazis annexed western Poland in 1939, they quickly set about identifying Polish citizens of German origin and granting them the privileged legal status of ethnic Germans of the Reich.
John Kulczycki approaches his topic from a different angle, focusing on how governments decide which minorities to include, not expel. The policies Germany and Poland pursued from 1939 to 1951 bear striking similarities.