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The United States and Polish October -- The swan song of the liberation -- First PL 480 Agreement -- Activities at the political level -- Activities at the economic level -- Public diplomacy : cultural and scientific cooperation and humanitarian aid -- Radio Free Europe in the Eisenhower administration's policy toward Poland -- New hopes and first disappointments -- Economic negotiations in the shadow of politics -- Other fields of cooperation -- The laborious "bridge building" -- Poland in the policy of "building bridges" -- RFE and other propaganda efforts -- The Oder-Neisse border in US policy towards Poland.

"This volume analyzes US policy towards communist-ruled Poland in the fields of diplomacy, economy, culture, and public diplomacy. It highlights the limitations in developing cooperation between democratic and non-democratic countries resulting from the Cold War conflict. No comprehensive account of US policy towards Poland from 1956-1968 has emerged in historiography. This book aims to answer why, since the political changes of the Polish October 1956, Washington ceased to see Polish affairs as "Soviet-related matters." Instead, it recognized communist-ruled Poland as a separate political entity among other Kremlin-dependent states in Eastern Europe. This policy, introduced by the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, was continued by his successors John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Recently declassified US and Polish archival sources allow the presentation of more considerations around the decision-making mechanisms by presidential administrations regarding communist Poland after 1956. They also reveal the dependence of the implementation of US actions on the climate of international relations. Moreover, they can now explain how Poland became an "open window" towards the Soviet bloc and a model example of the changes in the US policy of diversifying its approach to Eastern European countries under Soviet control in the next decades"--

Human rights and political dissent in Central Europe : between the Helsinki Accords and the fall of the Berlin Wall / Jakub Tyszkiewicz -- U.S. policy toward political opposition in Poland (1975-1981) / Jakub Tyszkiewicz -- Human rights in British policy on Poland (1975-1979) / Jacek Tebinka -- Basket III provisions in French and the Federal Republic of Germany policy toward the Polish People's Republic (1975-1980) : a comparative approach / Wanda Jarząbek -- Human rights in the policy of Sweden toward Poland (1975-1981) / Paweł Jaworski -- Between human rights and national opposition : Polish Opposition (1976-1989) / Łukasz Kamiński -- Exit, voice, duplicity : human rights in Romanian understanding (1975-1989) / Cristina Petrescu -- The Catholic Church, human rights and the democratic opposition in communist Poland : the case of Father Ludwik Wiśniewski / Bożena Szaynok -- The role of human rights in the situation of Slovak church and persecution of Christians in Slovakia in (1975-1989) / Róbert Letz -- John Paul II on human rights in Poland / Monika Jabłońska -- Political opposition, human rights and political changes in Czechoslovakia in 1989 / Peter Jašek -- Resistance, dissent and opposition movements : antecedents of the Hungarian regime change / Réka Kiss -- Revisiting the revolution of 1989 : the end of the communist rule in Romania / Dragoş Petrescu -- The United States and Hungary (1956-1990) / László Borhi -- The Polish American Congress, Polish diaspora and human rights movement in Poland / Joanna Wojdon -- The ideas of human rights and their impact during and after Soviet rule / Aaron Rhodes.

"This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination. It focuses in particular on - firstly - a consequent new impetus to bolster human rights in international politics, as Western democracies - especially the US - integrated human rights concerns into its foreign policy relations with Soviet Bloc countries and - secondly - how this Western embrace of human rights seemed to create new incentives for increased dissident activity in Central and Eastern Europe and from 1976 onward. Finally, the book reminds us of the significant role of the Helsinki Accords in developing democratic practices in Eastern European societies under Soviet domination in 1975-1989 and in creating the conditions for the peaceful transition to democratic government in the years that followed. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of the history of communism, post-Soviet, Russian, and central and East European politics, the history of human rights, and democratization"--

The new book by an experienced historian and a diplomat Przemysław Grudzinski, who in this moment is the vice minister of Polish Foreign Affairs, is an interesting effort to answer the key question - what foreign policy is needed by Poles at the beginning of 21th century. The book can be divided into three main parts. First, the author, based on a theory of international relations and history, and his own diplomatic and scholarly experience, tries to find a solution for the Polish foreign policy. Secondly, the theoretical foundation shows the place of Poland in history and an international system since modern era until today. Thirdly, such an approach allows him to consider what kind of policy is needed for Warsaw today.