Books by Leszek (Leo) W Gluchowski
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Among the underground publications of Polish Solidarność (Solidarity) movement, now a collection at the Cornell University Library Rare Books Department, as well as a title among the Independent Polish Publications, 1976-1989, 1986
Ph.D. Dissertation, Sep 1991
M.A. Thesis, Sep 1986
Despite the complexity of the Polish August, political idealism stands out as the most pervasive ... more Despite the complexity of the Polish August, political idealism stands out as the most pervasive and pressing influence on Polish society during that period. Moreover, the Polish crisis fits a pattern in Polish history which has been dominant since the 18th century. Ever since the partitions, the Poles have had to make certain assumptions about their political dilemma. The focal
In the mid-1960s, Gomulka’s government adopted an antisemitic stance in consequence of which near... more In the mid-1960s, Gomulka’s government adopted an antisemitic stance in consequence of which nearly 15,000 Jews left the country, effectively ending Jewish life in the country for over a decade. These events, long ignored by scholars, are now increasingly seen as an important step in the process that led to the collapse of communism. This volume illuminates the events that triggered the crisis, the crisis itself, and its consequences.
Selected Articles & Papers by Leszek (Leo) W Gluchowski
Since I have previously prepared, presented and distributed four (extensively documented) papers ... more Since I have previously prepared, presented and distributed four (extensively documented) papers that detail aspects of the relationship between Poland, China (the Soviet Union) and the Sino-Soviet split, I have decided to take this opportunity to present some preliminary thoughts on what the Polish and the Chinese Communists learned from each other on the way to the Sino-Soviet split. I am also indebted to the scholars and students who have subsequently obtained, translated, and made available new evidence from the former Soviet bloc archives on the subject, including the scholars who have already made herculean inroads to our understanding of the Sino-Soviet split in light of the Cold War.
Gomulka could have lost precious support inside the party-state apparatus, primarily at the centr... more Gomulka could have lost precious support inside the party-state apparatus, primarily at the central levels, had he continued to support a largely anti-Jewish purge and quietly negotiated the vast majority of the Soviets out of Poland, which is what was happening inside the Polish party between November 1954 and September 1956. But the process was slow and it did not include Rokossowski, among others, with whom Gomulka refused to rule. Furthermore, Gomulka could gain significant support inside the party's central organs and in Polish society in general if he shifted the blame for Polish stalinism away from the PUWP altogether and put the blame for Poland's past on Soviet advisors who had helped to construct and to co-manage the postwar Polish state. The problem was to do this without upsetting Moscow and instigating an anti-Soviet or anti-Russian uprising. The Polish party leaders, with Ochab as their spokesperson; to his credit Ochab had decided not to split the party over Gomulka’s return to the leadership and accepted the advice of his most powerful colleagues in the Politburo, namely Aleksander Zawadzki, Jozef Cyrankiewicz and Roman Zambrowski, went to the 8th CCP congress and, without Soviet permission, consulted Beijing about a possible Chinese-Polish initiative against Khrushchev’s constant meddling in the internal affairs of allied parties, which they believed was in direct contradiction to declarations made at the 20th CPSU congress.
In Beijing's Great Hall of the Museum of the Chinese Revolution there stands a special glass-case... more In Beijing's Great Hall of the Museum of the Chinese Revolution there stands a special glass-case under the banner: Great Internationalist Friendship. This section of the museum is dedicated to the 1939 international medical expedition to war ravaged China during the period when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese nationalist Guomindang (KMT) formed an uneasy coalition to resist Japanese aggression from 1936 to 1945. Among the photographs and list of members identified as taking part in the 1939 medical expedition to support the Chinese communists “in the united international anti-fascist front,” the first place was reserved for a Central European physician and professional communist revolutionary: Dr. Samuel M. Flato.
At the height of the evolving 1956 struggle between Moscow and Beijing over the future evolution ... more At the height of the evolving 1956 struggle between Moscow and Beijing over the future evolution of the international communist movement, from mid-September to late-October (the Eighth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Worker’s Party), the affairs of the Polish party took centre stage, especially in light of the Soviet threat on 19-20 October to intervene militarily in Poland. Indeed, in September 1960, shortly after relations between the USSR and PRC again took a turn for the worse, following Khrushchev’s humiliating visit to China in October 1959, the role played by the CCP in Poland’s de-stalinization crisis became yet another subject of contention between the three communist parties. Edward Ochab, First Secretary of the PUWP from 20 March to 21 October 1956, who helped to negotiate the Sino-Polish initiative against the Kremlin, in 1985 described the Polish gamble with particular glee: “never before or since has anyone played the kinds of tricks on our Soviet friends that they put up with from us [laughter]!”1 Although we need more Soviet and Chinese sources on this poorly documented aspect of the 1956 crisis to make less tentative conclusions, based on what has appeared to date from the Polish archives, the talks between China, Poland, and the Soviet Union at the time may reveal some new information about the evolving relationship between communist states and the subsequent Sino-Soviet split and thus shed further light on the Cold War in Asia.
In _Encyclopedia of the Cold War_ (2008)
In _Encyclopedia of the Cold War_ (2008)
Account of the senior Israeli counterintelligence officer, Lucjan LEWI, former director, operatio... more Account of the senior Israeli counterintelligence officer, Lucjan LEWI, former director, operations branch, Western Dept. of Shin Bet, upon his return to the PRL, as well as a PRL intelligence analysis of how he was unmasked in Israel.
CWIHP Working Paper Series, Apr 1997
Archival Documents by Leszek (Leo) W Gluchowski
A memo by the PRL Vice-Prosecutor investigating the Jerzy Bryn spy case on the military intellige... more A memo by the PRL Vice-Prosecutor investigating the Jerzy Bryn spy case on the military intelligence career of Rachel Gunzig dated in 1960, and a character assessment of Rachel Gunzig by the deputy Illegal stationed in Paris dated in 1949.
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Books by Leszek (Leo) W Gluchowski
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