Anita J. Prazmowska
Encyclopedia
Anita J. Prazmowska is a Professor in International History at the London School of Economics
. Her main fields of research interests lie in the Cold War
, communism
, contemporary history
, Eastern Europe
, fascism
and Poland
. She has published several books, and journals. Her articles have also been published in the The Guardian
.
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. Her main fields of research interests lie in the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
, communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, contemporary history
Contemporary history
Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century. In the widest context of this use,...
, Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
, fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
and Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. She has published several books, and journals. Her articles have also been published in the The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
.
Selected publications
- Civil War in Poland, (Macmillan Press, 2004)
- A History of Poland, (Macmillan Press, 2004)
- Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War, (Macmillan Press, 2000)
- Britain and Poland 1939-1943. The betrayed ally, (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939, (Cambridge University Press, 1987).