LEADER 04249cam a2200457Ia 4500001 39890 005 20240621144316.0 008 991104s1998 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)42769190 035 39890 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 D820.P72 |bG486 1998 100 1 Curp, T. David, |d1965- 245 12 A clean sweep? : |bthe politics of ethnic cleansing in midwestern Poland, 1945-1946 / |cby Timothy David Curp. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1998. 300 xxii, 311 pages : |billustrations, maps 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-305). 520 From 1945 to 1946 the Communist-dominated Polish government established its rule throughout the newly reconstituted Polish state. In accord with wartime Great Power agreements, Poland was stripped of its pre-war eastern provinces, but received large tracts of German territory to the north and west--what Poland's new authorities called the "Recovered Territories". The new Soviet-sponsored regime, led by the Polish Workers' Party (PPR), launched radical political and socio-economic revolutions throughout Poland, and also waged a nationalist revolution that included ethnic cleansing, degermanization and polonization in most of Poland, as well as the colonization of the Recovered Territories. In midwestern Poland (Wielkopolska) these revolutions deeply polarized local society. Much of Wielkopolska's conservative, Catholic population opposed the new authorities' political and socio-economic revolutions but supported the regime's nationalist revolution. An important source of support for the regime's efforts to popularize this nationalist revolution was an organization affiliated with the National Democratic Party (a Party which was particularly powerful in pre-war Wielkopolska), the Polish Western Union (PZZ). The Catholic Church in Wielkopolska, even as it began to strengthen its role in public life, offer a Catholic vision of Poland's reconstruction, and counter what it regarded as the regime's efforts to enforce Poland's sovietization, also participated in this nationalist revolution. Administrative chaos, official plundering (and unofficial banditry and assault) by the Red Army, the depredations of the regime's own security forces, and looting by many of the new Polish settlers exacerbated near-catastrophic conditions at the local level in Ziemia Lubuska--the region of the Recovered Territories assigned to Wielkopolska for settlement. As political conflict in Wielkopolska deepened from late 1945 through 1946, with the establishment of an increasingly popular opposition Polish Peasants' Party (PSL), the regime relied more and more on its nationalist revolution as a primary means to secure its legitimacy. This politically benefited the regime, but also established extreme nationalism as a central element in the political life of People's Poland. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e23 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Population transfers |xGermans |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Population transfers |xPolish people |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Migration, Internal |zPoland. 651 0 Wielkopolska (Poland) |xPolitics and government. 651 0 Poland |xPolitics and government |y1945-1980. 650 0 Communism |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Western and Northern Territories (Poland) |xHistory. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=738061781&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib39890/9836158.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 E0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hD820.P72 G486 1998 852 |bwww 852 |bebook