This book attempts to chart the ebb-and-flow of population movement that resulted from two periods of Soviet occupation of Polish territory during the Second World War: between 1939 and 1941 and again in 1944-45. Much of this migration was involuntary. Polish citizens were uproo…
Discusses the contemporary Polish self-concept in the shadow of wartime and postwar antisemitism, pointing to the existence of an antisemitic concept of the enemy which relies on the nexus of Jews and communism (the "Żydokomuna"), and which is considered as the counter-point to …
Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when official interest and involvem…
