Poland

More than two decades ago, Adam Zamoyski wrote a history of the Poles and their culture. As a major revision of the work is published, he reflects on the nation’s change in fortune.

Reconciliation is not following in the wake of the search for truth about the past in one fomer Warsaw Pact country, Colin Graham reports.

Lessons from the Auschwitz Project. Robert Carr shares his experiences.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Poland, Europe and ‘The Isles’.

A mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on 14 May 1955.

Robert Pearce introduces the man who has been called ‘the George Washington of Poland’.

Richard Monte presents the forthcoming Polish film adaptation of Quo Vadis.

What did Hitler mean by Lebensraum? Did he attempt to translate theory into reality? Martyn Housden 'unpacks' the term and puts it into historical context.

Cressida Trew, winner of this year's Julia Wood Essay Prize, shows that Polish historians under political duress and with the need to forge a positive national identity have denied rather than confronted the Holocaust. 

Mikhail Gorbachev's period as President of the Soviet Union, 1985-91, was truly revolutionary. But Steven Morewood argues that he failed to understand or control the forces he unleashed.