Anita J. Prazmowska (also Prażmowska) is a Professor in International History at the

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England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...

. Her main fields of research lie in the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

contemporary history Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is ...

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, whi ...

fascism Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and t ...

and

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. She has published several books and journals. Her articles have been published in ''

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''. Her biography of

Władysław Gomułka Władysław Gomułka (; 6 February 1905 – 1 September 1982) was a Polish communist politician. He was the ''de facto'' leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948. Following the Polish October he became leader again from 1956 to 1970. G ...

was released in 2016.

Selected publications

*''Władysław Gomułka: A Biography'' ( I.B. Tauris, 2016). *''A History of Poland'' 2nd ed. (

Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains off ...

, 2011). *''Poland: A Modern History'' ( I.B. Tauris, 2010). *''Ignacy Paderewski: Poland'' (

Haus Publishing Haus Publishing is a London-based publishing company which was established in 2002. History Haus Publishing was founded in 2002 by Barbara Schwepcke, the former publisher of ''Prospect'' magazine. The publisher has a book shop, BookHaus, on the ...

, 2009). *''Civil War in Poland 1942–1948'' (

, 2004). *''Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War'' (

, 2000). *''Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally'' (

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Pr ...

, 1995). *''Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939'' (

, 1987).

References

External links

Biography at LSE
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