“Truly Polish in Spirit and Form”: The Communist Poles and their Battle against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945

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dc.contributor.advisorHill, Alexander
dc.contributor.advisorClark, John Denis Havey
dc.contributor.authorHann, Keith
dc.contributor.committeememberBercuson, David Jay
dc.contributor.committeememberRoberts, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.committeememberStapleton, Timothy J.
dc.contributor.committeememberTimm, Annette F.
dc.date2020-11
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-09T17:30:04Z
dc.date.available2020-07-09T17:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-06
dc.description.abstractThe armed resistance of communist Poles and the forces they organized against Nazi Germany during the Second World War—both clandestine and regular—is poorly understood in the West. Rarely examined in any depth in English, the people and events involved are instead typically folded into a historiography focused on other subjects, dominated by Cold War-era prejudices, and defined in large part by a lack of usage of or access to accurate Polish sources. The resulting oversights, simplifications, and inaccuracies have served to mask the significant military contributions of the communist Poles to the armed struggle against Nazi Germany in the period 1941 to 1945, as well as to conceal the ways in which the communists made their armed forces Polish (as opposed to Soviet and/or communist) in appearance and character. In turn, this obscures one of the foundations of communist postwar rule: the communists, who would eventually come to power in Poland and rule that country for over four decades, made a great effort to shore up their legitimacy by constantly referencing and sometimes inflating their role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Whether or not this military contribution was at times inflated, it was a significant one, made by armed forces that were to a meaningful extent “truly Polish”.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHann, K. (2020). “Truly Polish in Spirit and Form”: The Communist Poles and their Battle against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945 (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37990
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112268
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subjectPoland, LWP, ZPP, GL, AL, PPR, communist, communism, military history, military culture, Second World War, WWIIen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory--Modernen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory--Militaryen_US
dc.subject.classificationHistory--Russian and Sovieten_US
dc.subject.classificationJewish Studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationMilitary Studiesen_US
dc.title“Truly Polish in Spirit and Form”: The Communist Poles and their Battle against Nazi Germany, 1941-1945en_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopyfalseen_US
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