Eastern Europe and the West : Selected Papers From the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

This book explores the rich and complex relationship between Eastern Europe and the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hans Henning Hahn, Robert Berry and Frank Thackeray elucidate Polish emigre diplomacy in the Partition years. Thomas Sakmyster reveals the British contribution to the establishment of the Horthy regime in Hungary. Peter Pastor chronicles the fate of the Hungarian community in wartime Britain, and Gyula Juhasz and Peter Hidas investigate the activities of Hungarian diplomats in the Second World War. Bernd Fischer looks at the role of British intelligence in Albania in the Second World War, while Osvaldo Croci investigates the diplomatic return of Trieste to Italy in 1953. Lech Trzeciakowski, John Kulczycki and Adam Walaszek discuss the experiences of Polish miners in Germany, German settlers in Poland and Polish returnees from the USA. Robert Blobaum reinterprets the Polish Marxists' policy towards the Polish question, and Richard Lewis reviews the fate of Polish historians under Marxism. Alan Foster analyzes the sympathy of The Times and the Beaverbrook Press for the Soviet Union in the interwar period, and Paul Latawski scrutinises the idiosyncratic views of Sir Lewis Namier on Poland and Czechoslovakia. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Possibilities and Limitations of Foreign Policy, in Exile: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski’s Hotel Lambert in Western Europe, 1831–40....Pages 3-25 Polish Diplomatic Activities in the Ottoman Empire, 1832–48: The Influence of the Hotel Lambert on Ottoman Policy....Pages 26-51 Piłsudski, Dmowski and the Russo-Japanese War: An Episode in the Diplomacy of a Stateless People....Pages 52-67 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 Great Britain and the Establishment of the Horthy Regime....Pages 71-80 Hungarian Emigrés in Wartime Britain....Pages 81-92 The Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian Diplomats in the Field, 1939–44....Pages 93-101 A View from the Embassy: László Velics and Occupied Greece 1941–4....Pages 102-126 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Abaz Kupi and British Intelligence in Albania, 1943–4....Pages 129-139 The USA, Yugoslavia and the Question of Trieste: The American Policy Reversal of October 1953....Pages 140-170 Front Matter....Pages 171-171 Relations between the Polish and German Populations of Prussian Poland, 1772–1918....Pages 173-185 Relations between Polish and German Coal-Miners in the Ruhr, 1871–1914....Pages 186-192 Overseas Migration Consequences: The Case of Poles Returning from the USA, 1880–1924....Pages 193-204 Front Matter....Pages 205-205 The SDKPiL and the Polish Question (Revisited)....Pages 207-218 Marxist Historiography and the History Profession in Poland, 1944–55....Pages 219-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 The Foreign Office, the British Press and Eastern Europe, 1919–48: The Cases of Czechoslovakia and Poland....Pages 229-250 Lewis Namier on Czechoslovak and Polish Political Culture....Pages 251-264 Back Matter....Pages 265-271 Explores the relationship between Eastern Europe and the West in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited By John Morison. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.