Collected Essays on War, Holocaust and the Crisis of Communism

Historian Gross reflects on aspects of his native Poland during the 20th century. He covers his intellectual journey into the hidden Polish past, themes for a social history of war experience and collaboration, an interpretation of Polish-Jewish relations during the war, the Jewish community in the Soviet-annexed territories on the eve of the Holocaust, whether opportunistic killings and plunder of Jews by their neighbors is a norm or an exception in German occupied Europe, a note on the nature of Soviet totalitarianism, the crisis of communism in Eastern Europe, Poland from civil society to political nation, and between Russia and the United States. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jan Tomasz Gross is Professor of History at Princeton University (USA). He is the author of the extensively discussed books Neighbors, Fear, and Revolution from Abroad. His research interests are comparative politics, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Soviet and East European politics, and the Holocaust.