TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kunicki,Mikołaj Stanisław
TI  - Between the brown and the red: nationalism, Catholicism, and communism in twentieth-century Poland : the politics of Bolesław Piasecki 
T2  - Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series
SN  - 9780821444207
AV  - DK4435.P54 K86 2012
U1  - 943.805/5092B 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Piasecki, Bolesław.
KW  - Piasecki, Bolesaw.
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Poland
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Communism and Christianity
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Germany
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - 1945-1980
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index
N2  - In this study of the relationship of nationalism, communism, authoritarianism, and religion in twentieth-century Poland, Mikolaj Kunicki shows how the country's communist rulers tried to adapt communism to local traditions, particularly ethnocentric nationalism and Catholicism. Focusing on the political career of Boleslaw Piasecki, a Polish nationalist politician who started his journey as a fascist before the war and ended it as a procommunist activist, Kunicki demonstrates that Polish Communists reinforced the ethnocentric self-definition of Polishness and--as Piasecki's case proves--prolonged the existence of the nationalist Right. Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in Communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue rather than stagnating in a state of constant struggle. Contrary to assumptions, under Communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger. Between the Brown and the Red also introduces to the reader one of the most fascinating figures in the history of twentieth-century Poland and the Communist world
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