Rok 1920 i lata następne. Brytyjska polityka appeasementu i zdrady? Artykuł polemiczny
The year of 1920 and the following. The British policy of appeasement and of betrayal? A polemic article
Author(s): Michał Jerzy ZachariasSubject(s): History, Comparative history, Diplomatic history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: appeasement policy; betrayal of the West; 1920; Treaty of Versailles; Versailles system; Munich; Yalta; Normandy format; historical policy; Slavophiles; James Arthur Balfour; David Lloyd George;Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky;
Summary/Abstract: The article is a polemics with the theses presented in the book by Andrzej Nowak Pierwsza zdrada Zachodu. 1920 – zapomniany appeasement (The First Betrayal of the West. 1920 – The Forgotten Appeasement) In the author’s opinion, Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s policy toward Poland in 1920 could be neither compared nor identified with later actions of the British known as “appeasement”. And to use the term of “betrayal” in scholarly studies of politics seems problematic to him. Mainly because such a term does not explain either motivations or possibilities, or conditions and expectations related to the decisions that are termed as the “betrayal”. It serves more to a specific historical policy, not to say propaganda, rather than the actual need to know the complex, complicated and multidimensional historic truth.
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
- Issue Year: 53/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 165-194
- Page Count: 30
- Language: Polish