Intermarium online journal Intermarium provides an electronic medium for noteworthy scholarship and provocative thinking about the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe following World War II. The journal is meant to broaden the discourse on aspects of national histories that are undergoing change thanks to the availability of new documentation from recently opened archives. Its name, Intermarium, reflects East Central Europe's geographic location between the seas: Baltic, Adriatic and Black. The editors' purpose is to facilitate interaction between scholarly communities by making research, essays, commentaries, documents, and reviews from the region available in English. It is a project of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Columbia University's East Central European Center. Special Feature: POLISH GENERALS DISCUSS WARSAW PACT SECRETS Oral History Interviews Online The first oral history collection of the Parallel History Project of the Warsaw Pact (PHP), drawing on interviews with Generals Jaruzelski, Siwicki, Tuczapski, and other high-ranking Polish officers of the cold war period as well as on newly declassified documents in several specialized Polish archives. The interviews shed light on the workings of the Eastern alliance, the relations between Warsaw and the alliance leader Moscow, and the assumptions of casualties during an armed conflict with the West. Among the key findings of the collection is the revealed eminent role of the "Polish front" in a planned operation against Denmark in case of a war in Europe.
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