SIKORSKI, WLADYSLAW

vlädĭˈswäf shēkôrˈskē, 1881–1943, Polish general and politician. He fought in World War I and later (1922–25) held various cabinet posts. Premier Pilsudski dismissed him from public service in 1928, but after the German conquest of Poland, Sikorski became (1939) premier of the Polish government in exile. He also was commander in chief of the Polish forces that continued to fight alongside the Allies in World War II. Sikorski restored (1941) diplomatic relations with the USSR, but after he requested International Red Cross investigation of the Katyn incident, relations were again broken off (Apr., 1943). Sikorski died in an airplane crash near Gibraltar.

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books on: Sikorski Wladyslaw  - 101 results

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People's Poland: Patterns of Social Inequality and Conflict
Book by Wladyslaw Majkowski; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Poland--Economic Conditions--1981-1990, Social Classes--Poland, Social Conflict--Poland, Working Class--Poland
...See UB Sejm, 42 , 152 , 189 n.1 Sharing a similar lifestyle, 8 Siberia, 69 , 190 n.4 Sikorski, Wladyslaw, 190 n.4 Sila-Nowicki, Wladyslaw, 77 - 78 Skilled manual workers in Poland, 107 , 118 -21, 122 -23, 134 , 160 , 212 n...
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Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia - Vol. 2
Book by Bernard A. Cook; Garland, 2001
Subjects: Europe--Civilization--1945- Encyclopedias, Europe--History--1945---Encyclopedias, European Cooperation--Encyclopedias, Political Leadership--Europe--Encyclopedias, Politicians--Europe--Encyclopedias, Statesmen--Europe--Encyclopedias
...1971. Timothy C. Dowling SEE ALSO Dubcek, Alexander Sikorski, Wladyslaw E. (1881-1943) Polish general, prime minister...Polish government-in-exile. Although Wladyslaw Sikorski perished in 1943, his initiatives as wartime prime...
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Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre
Book by J. K. Zawodny; University of Notre Dame Press, 1962
Subjects: Katyn Forest Massacre, 1940
...193 n Shvaikova, M. D., 57 n 7-Tag , 113 Sikorski, F., 146 Sikorski, Wladyslaw, 5 - 6 , 31 , 37 , 47 n , 72 in search for missing men, 9 - 10 Sikorski government, see Polish Government-in-Exile...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...Polish Literature; Positivism Sikorski, Wladyslaw (1881 1943) Polish statesman...military writer. Born in Galicia, Sikorski headed the War Department of...1922). From 1924 to 1925, Sikorski was minister of military affairs...
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Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology
Book by Eric Joseph Epstein, Philip Rosen; Greenwood, 1997
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Dictionaries
...The Tragedy of Rumanian Jewry . Sikorski, Wladyslaw 1881-1943 . Prime minister...retaliation. He negotiated the Sikorski- Stalin Pact on July 30, 1941...General Wladylsaw Anders Army. Sikorski was killed in a plane crash on...
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journal articles on: Sikorski Wladyslaw  - 6 results

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Hungary's Relationship with Poland and Its Refugees during World War II
Journal article by Judith Fai-Podlipnik; East European Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Ethnic relations--History, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, International relations--History, Poland--History, Refugees--History, Society--History, War and society--History, Wars--History, World War II, 1939-1945--Social aspects
...Polish military. On the 30th, Wladyslaw Rackiewicz, who had fled days...government-in-exile and General Wladyslaw Sikorski, who was retired at the time...defense of the English nation. Sikorski, the head of the Polish military...
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The Polish Socialist Party, 1945-1948
Journal article by A.J. Prazmowska; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Poland--Political aspects, Polish Socialist Party--History, Polish United Workers' Party--History, Political parties--Poland
...government formed by General Wladyslaw Sikorski in Paris. In return for their...governments decisions. Since Sikorski did not want to see the emergence...Communists view was put forward by Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Secretary General...
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The "Polish Problem" -- American War-Time Perspectives(*)
Journal article by Christopher G. Salisbury; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Cold War--Causes of, International relations--Political aspects, Poland--History, United States--Relations with Poland
...successive Polish governments under such confirmed eastward-oriented leaders as Premiers Jozef Pilsudski, Wladyslaw Sikorski and Stanislaw Mikolajczyk favoured the "Jagiellonian" stance (as did the Western allies following the 1939 Nazi...
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Fifty Years of Freedom: Polish Music after 1945
Journal article by Piotr Grella-Mozejko; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects: History, History & criticism, Music, Musicians & conductors, Poland
...patronage of prince Wladyslaw Lubomirski to promote...music of Kazimierz Sikorski (1895-1986...productive life, Sikorski was active not only...Penherski (b. 1935), Wladyslaw Slowinski (b...the Polish artist Wladyslaw Strzeminskis style...1937), Tomasz Sikorski (1939-1988...
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Cultural Pathology: Roots of Polish Literary Opposition to Communism
Journal article by Carl Tighe; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 28, 1998
Subjects: Communism, Literature, Opposites--Analysis, Opposites--Portrayals, Poland, Polarity in literature--Analysis
...line that post-war First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka was later to label abstract revolutionism...mysterious circumstances and killed. Wladyslaw Gomulka, who had survived the 1938 purge...Soviet Relations II: 1939-45, General Sikorski Historical Institute (London, 1967...
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Autumn Books
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 47, October 1997
Subjects: History--Bibliography
...in Principle: The Wartime Partnership of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and Winston Churchill by Leon J. Waszak (Peter Lang...1939-43 as a result of the leadership of General Sikorski, who, it is argued, was an important and valued...
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The Phenomenal Paderewski
Magazine article by Susan Osmond, Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 17, August 2002
Subjects: Paderewski, Ignace Jan--Biography, Pianists--Biography
...September 1, 1939, and World War II commenced. A Polish government-in-exile was formed in October under Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in Paris, and the frail Paderewski agreed to be president of its National Council, a largely symbolic office...
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The End of the Pius Wars
Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2004
...to Winston Churchill, penning a play in 1967 that claimed Churchill had ordered the murder of the Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski and, later, the murder of the pilot who had crashed Sikorskis plane. Unbeknownst to Hochhuth, the pilot was...


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Sikorski Assassination Attempt Mystery
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 4, 2006
Subjects: Assassination
Sikorski Assassination Attempt Mystery. British...Second World War Polish leader General Wladyslaw Sikorski, according to secret files made public...involving a incendiary device on a flight by Sikorski and his entourage from Scotland to Canada...
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Maclean, the War Hero Who Was a Model James Bond; ADVENTURER SIR FITZROY DIES AT 85
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 18, 1996
...Gibraltar, killing all its passengers, including General Wladyslaw Sikorski, leader of the wartime Polish government-in-exile...Stalin would have wanted him dead just as much as Sikorski. Maclean started his career in the Foreign Office...
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Poles Quickly Fill Void New Officials in Place as Nation Still Grieves
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 12, 2010
Subjects: Aircraft accidents
...Polish tradition. Kaczynski was the first serving Polish leader to die since exiled World War II-era leader Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski was killed in a mysterious plane crash off Gibraltar in 1943. Poland is a young democracy, adopting its constitution...
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Today in History
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), May 20, 2009
Subjects: Clothing industry, Copper industry, Levi Strauss & Co.
...birthdays Honore de Balzac, French writer (1799-1850); John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (1806-1873); Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish General and statesman (1881-1943); James Stewart, US actor (1908-1997); Moshe Dayan, Israeli...
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Poland Mourns Its Lost Leaders; President Dies in Russian Air Crash Together with Political and Miltary Elite
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 11, 2010
Subjects: Aircraft accidents, Kaczynski, Lech--Appreciation, Kaczynski, Lech--Death of
...ordered the killings. Yesterdays disaster revived memories of the death of the countrys wartime leader General Wladyslaw Sikorski in 1943. He was returning to London when his Liberator aircraft crashed into the sea shortly after take-off from...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sikorski Wladyslaw  - 2 results

 
 
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Sikorski, Wladyslaw
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIKORSKI, WLADYSLAW vladi swaf shekor ske, 1881 1943...after the German conquest of Poland, Sikorski became (1939) premier of the Polish...alongside the Allies in World War II. Sikorski restored (1941) diplomatic relations...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and a government in exile (led initially by General Wladyslaw Sikorski and later by Stanislaus Mikolajczyk ) was established...forced to reconsider its policies. In Oct., 1956, Wladyslaw Gomulka , purged in 1949 from the Polish Communist...


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