PIWARSKI Kazimierz. Odra river of peace. Warsaw 1947. workers' University Society. Pp. 229, [2], map; 21cm.
Original softcover. Good condition.
"This book was compiled from a number of articles that were mostly published in the years 1945-1947 in the pages of our periodicals (such as "Dziennik Polski", "Dziennik Zachodni", "Młoda Rzeczpospolita", "Naprzód", "Śląsk", "Życie Słowiańskie", "Wiedza i życie") and in the publication "In the Service of the Sea (Cracow 1947: the article in question is "Gdańsk and Szczecin"). Scattered in this way, they could not, of course, fulfill their task sufficiently; and we would like to see them collected in one volume to reach as wide a readership as possible. For the purposes of the book edition, the articles have been reviewed and, in more than one case, rewritten. The content of the articles is the problems of our Recovered Territories and Slavic issues. Although in the individual articles these issues have been approached from a different angle, nevertheless in the historical material justifying the argument there are repetitions, which were difficult to avoid due to the need to maintain the proper construction of the articles. In turn, the unifying bond of a common subject matter means that the articles have taken on the character of individual chapters of a single book. We have tried to provide the reader with the most multifaceted illumination of the aforementioned issues - so extremely topical in today's Polish reality - in order to adequately strongly emphasize the significance of the historical changes we are witnessing."
Content:
- Oder - the river of peace
- Poland's historical rights to the Recovered Territories
- At the foundation of democratic Polish thought
- Everywhere we find traces of Polishness....
- On the Polishness of Silesia on the left bank of the Oder in more recent times
- Defense of Polishness against Germanness in Silesia
- Policies and methods of the Germans against the Poles (Striving to destroy the Poles)
- "Silesia bought into Poland".
- Szczecin and Gdansk (Historical reflections)
- From the ancient history of the Slavic lands
- The importance of the Western Territories for Poland and the Slavs in historical perspective
- Slavs and the Baltic
- Bohemia and Poland in historical development
- Brotherly nations on a common path
- Liquidation of Prussia
- From the Author
Kazimierz Józef Piwarski (1903-1968) - Polish historian, researcher of modern and recent history, rector of the WSP in Cracow, professor at Jagiellonian University, founder of the Marxist Association of Historians, editor of the Historical Quarterly.
