Churchill claimed that "to commune Poland is pure madness." Stalin was said to have said that "communism fits Poland like a cow's saddle." So how is it possible that the Polish People's Republic was created and survived almost half a century?
Nikolai Ivanov tries to answer this question, and in his latest book he writes about the methods with which Stalin tried to subjugate Poland and why his policy did not bring lasting results. The Polish anti-communist opposition turned out to be more durable than the colossus of the sickle and hammer. Here, however, a key question arises:why?
Learn about the methods with which Stalin tried to subjugate Poland and the reasons why his policy did not bring lasting results thanks to the latest book by Nikolai Ivanov, "Communism in Polish" (Wydawnictwo Literackie 2017).
Communism in Polish is a book showing the history of unsuccessful, in retrospect, attempts to dominate Poland by the Soviet Union:from Stalinist aggression to 1993. Nikolai Ivanov, a Polish historian and former Russian dissident, writes about how Polish communism and the problem of Sovietization of our country in Moscow were perceived. He analyzes the perception of Poland and Russia of the occupation of the territory of the Republic of Poland by the Red Army. It gives food for thought and raises questions that are important also in the context of the current political situation - in the first place with this year's decommunization act and Russia's reaction to its entry into force.
Ivanov uses documents unknown in Poland from Russian archives. As a historian of Russian origin, he has a flawless intuition in the analysis of the enslavement mechanisms used by the Soviets - starting with Stalin himself, as a very important figure in the book, and ending with NKVD activists or representatives of various Soviet services at the bottom of the hierarchy of power, implementing the guidelines of their chiefs in the field.
One-of-a-kind history of Polish communization as seen from the Kremlin:
