Papers, 1918-1978
Historical documents relating to pre-war Polish political parties including the Socialist (PPS), Christian-Democratic (CD), National Democratic (ND), and Peasant (PSL); public administration before World War II; Piłsudski's coup d'état of May, 1926; attempts by the National Democrats and Socialists to overthrow Piłsudski's regime, 1930; and Centrolew and the Brzesc trials, 1930-1933. Documents and publications of the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945, concerning Polish-Soviet relations, 1918-1946; "incorporation" of the Eastern Territories (Kresy) into the USSR; General-Government and the state of the economy, 1943; German occupation forces in Byelorussia and the Ukraine; legal status of Poles working in Germany; Polish prisoners of war in the USSR; and the Katyn massacre. Documents relating to World War II include declarations of the PSL, PPS, CD, and ND; protocol of the Tymczasowa Rada Jednosci Narodowej (Provisional Council of National Unity); report of the Governmental Commission investigating the causes of Poland's collapse, 1939; clippings from the Polish press; documents on the Polish People's Army; the underground movement; economic conditions in occupied Poland; freemasonry; Maciej Rataj's memoirs; Yalta and Potsdam Conferences; and the falsified elections of 1947. Documents, slides, and photographs of the Warsaw Uprising, Poznan riots, 1956, Hungarian revolution, 1956, Polish student riots, March 1968
Archival Material, Polish, 1918
History
13 containers.
155522971
Polish, English, some German