Donald E Pienkos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald E Pienkos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald E |
| FAMILY NAME | Pienkos |
| SIGNATURE | PIENKOS D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 47 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Great Nato Alliance
This review essay was completed in May 2025. This statement is relevant and for two reasons. One, what I wrote will not likely appear in print for some time to come. Two, whether NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was established in 1949, will still exist in its current form is a serious question.The two books covered here are very different from one another. The first is a collection of twenty-two essays that were published in a…
Remembering
The tragic saga of the heroic but too little known Warsaw Uprising of 1944 is summarized here on its eightieth anniversary. A personal remembrance follows. The essay ends with a selected bibliography of important publications on Poland's fate in World War II, the Poles’ resistance to their occupiers, the Uprising itself, and its consequences for the nation. Seven of these works are starred. They were authored by persons who took part in the Upris…
From Warsaw with Love
This work, by a veteran U.S. foreign correspondent who spent four years in Poland, gives readers his own “hidden history” of Poland's role in ending the Cold War. Here, John Pomfret's work is similar to Seth Jones’ A Covert Action, reviewed in this journal in 2021. Both deal with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's “behind the scenes” activities on behalf of Poland's successful liberation from Soviet domination in 1989.However, From Warsaw Wit…
Through the Eyes of a Strategist and a Diplomat
This work appeared in connection with the centennial of Poland's rebirth as an independent state in 2018. Its focus is Poland-United States diplomatic relations. It is a most welcome addition to what we have in this field, most notably Piotr Wandycz's The United States and Poland (1980) and Wandycz and John S. Micgiel's edited volume, Reflections on Polish Foreign Policy (2007). Contributors to this collection are prominent public officials from …
The Pope in Poland
Pope John Paul II made nine visits, or pilgrimages, to his homeland of Poland during his momentous, twenty-six-year leadership of the Roman Catholic Church that began in October 1978. This work covers the first four, those of June 2–10, 1979, June 16–23, 1983, June 8–14, 1987, and June 1–9, 1991. The first three came while Poland was under communist rule. The fourth took place in the early months of the newly created post-communist, democratic th…
Agnieszka Wisła and the Blue Army
Agnieszka Wisła (1887–1980) is a surprisingly little remembered activist. She is mentioned in published works in both Polish and English on the Polish community in America, but beyond that there is practically nothing. The author of this handsome, lavishly illustrated book, originally published in Polish as Agnieszka Wisła i działalność Polek w Ameryce na rzecz ochotników i weteranów Błękitnej Armii in 2015, tells us why she was so important and …
Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland
This collection of fourteen essays, completed around 2015, brings together sixteen scholars, most of them political scientists from Poland, under the oversight of an editorial team led by Sabrina P. Ramet of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.Their efforts cover a wide range of subjects relating to current day Polish politics and political culture in what Ramet sees as a struggle between those who are engaged in promoting “civic a…
Kościuszko i jego następcy [Kościuszko and those who came after]
This collection of presentations brings together a dozen papers from two recent conferences of historians held in Poland. Nine are from a meeting in 2016. They focus on aspects of the career of General Tadeusz Kościuszko, the renowned fighter for freedom and social justice, and in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of his death. Three others are from the second conference in 2017; they deal more broadly with topics connected with the struggles…
Twilight of Democracy
Journalist and historian Anne Applebaum has won deserved acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize for books focusing on the malign effects of the Soviet dictatorship on its own subjects and the peoples of neighboring lands, but of late she has turned her attention to sounding alarms against growing threats to democracy from other, newer, and more unexpected sources, conspicuous among them the Law and Justice government of Poland. Her latest, Twilight of Demo…
A Covert Action
Book Review| December 01 2021 A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland Seth G. Jones, A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland, (New York and London: Norton, 2018), 418 pp., notes, index, photographs, maps). ISBN: 978-0-393-24700-8. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (…
Appeasement
Book Review| December 01 2021 Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War Tim Bouverie, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War, (New York: Crown Publishers, 2019), 498 pp., notes, index, photographs, maps. ISBN 978-0-451-49984-4. Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Professor Emeritus The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2021) 66 (…
Sons of One Nation
Polish American Studies and the Organizations of American Polonia
Research Article| April 01 2020 Polish American Studies and the Organizations of American Polonia Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos is a professor emeritus (political science) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and chairs its Polish Studies Committee. His publications include histories of the Polish National Alliance, Polish Falcons of America, the Polish Women’s Alliance (with his wife Angela Pienkos), and the Polish American…
The New Ethnicity Movement and Polish Americans
The New Ethnicity movement was one of the many social protest movements that arose in the conflicted 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. Its leading advocates—Michael Novak, Geno Baroni, and Andrew Greeley—argued powerfully against the derogatory characterization of urban Americans of Polish, Italian, Greek, and East and Central European ancestry in connection with the burning issues of the day, most notably civil rights and the Vietnam War. They u…
Gorbachev
Book Review| April 01 2019 Gorbachev: His Life and Times William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times, (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2017), 852 pp., notes, bibliography, index, photographs. ISBN-13: 978–1471157585. Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2019) 64 (1): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.64.1.0097 Cite …
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses, Past and Present
Book Review| October 01 2018 The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses, Past and Present Agnieszka Małek and Dorota Praszałowicz, eds. The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses, Past and Present, (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers, 2017). 208 pp. Notes. ISBN: 978-3-631-67199-3. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus) Search for other works by this author on:…
Democracy
Book Review| July 01 2018 Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom Condoleezza Rice, Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2017), 482 pp., notes, bibliography, index, photographs. ISBN 978–1-4555-4018-1. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus) Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) 63 (2): 123–125. https://doi.…
Intermarium
Book Review| April 01 2018 Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas, (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Transaction Publishers, 2012, 2016). 568 pp., index, notes, bibliography, maps. ISBN 978-1-4128-6406-0. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emeritus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The …
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989
Book Review| October 01 2017 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989: Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe Andrzej Paczkowski, Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989: Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe, (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2015), xvi, 397 pp., notes, index, bibliography. Translated by Christina Manetti. ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-536-6. Donald E.…
Sharing the Polish Experience
Research Article| April 01 2017 Sharing the Polish Experience: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Polish Studies Committee Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an author of numerous publications on the American Polonia’s organizational and political history, including volumes on the Polish American Congress (1991), the Polish National All…
Democratic Assistance from the Third Wave
Book Review| April 01 2017 Democratic Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine Paulina Pospieszna, Democratic Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), 265 pp., references, bibliography. ISBN: 0-8229-6271-3. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goog…
Black Earth
Book Review| December 01 2017 Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, (New York: Duggan Books, Imprint of Crown Publishers, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015), 462 pp., index, notes, maps, selected bibliography. ISBN 978-1-101-90345-2. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Emeritus) Search for other works by this author on: Thi…
Poland
The Polish American Congress and the Organized Polish American Community Since 1999 Defining a New Mission After Poland’s Entry to Nato
The liberation of Poland from dictatorship and foreign domination, and its transformation into a democracy allied with the United States after its admission to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), fulfilled the original mission of the Polish American Congress (PAC), founded in 1944. This success brought with it the challenge of rethinking the organization’s objectives. For a variety of reasons, little was done to meet this challenge unt…
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Peasant responses to collectivization
(1973). Peasant responses to collectivization: A comparison of communist agriculture policies in the U.S.S.R. and poland. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 191-210
Regional Differences and Rural Change in Poland
Ethnic Orientations among Polish Americans
A survey of the ethnic consciousness of 246 Milwaukee Polish Americans found that the respondents could be divided into three general categories. The largest of these was composed of persons who, for all practical purposes, are assimilated. Among the others, two variations in Polish American ethnicity were identified. One was based on involvement in fraternal organizations while the other was founded in the maintenance of close contacts with Pola…
Ethnic Orientations among Polish Americans
Rostenkowski
American "Polonia" and Poland, a Sequel to Poles in America
Book Review| April 01 2001 American "Polonia" and Poland, a Sequel to Poles in America: Bicentennial Essays American "Polonia" and Poland, a Sequel to Poles in America: Bicentennial Essays, Frank Mocha. Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2001) 58 (1): 104–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148603 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
Presidential Address
Research Article| April 01 2002 Presidential Address: Recalling Stanislaus A. Blejwas and Rededicating Ourselves to the PAHA Mission Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2002) 59 (1): 5–8. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148624 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pienkos; Presidential Address: Recall…
The American Game
Book Review| October 01 2003 The American Game: Baseball and EthnicityMusial: From Stash to Stan the Man The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity, Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson.Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man, James N. Giglio. Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2003) 60 (2): 101–106. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148680 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Face…
Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-36
Book Review| October 01 2005 Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-36 Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-36, Cecelia Bucki. Donald Pienkos Donald Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2005) 62 (2): 86–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/20148732 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Donald Pienkos; Bridgeport’s Socialist New Deal, 1915-36.…
An Interesting if Less Than Startling Presidential Election
Research Article| October 01 2010 AN INTERESTING IF LESS THAN STARTLING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DONALD E. PIENKOS DONALD E. PIENKOS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2010) 55 (3): 323–336. https://doi.org/10.2307/25779886 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation DONALD E. PIENKOS; AN INTERESTING IF LESS THAN STARTLING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The Poli…
Of Patriots and Presidents
Research Article| April 01 2011 Of Patriots and Presidents: America’s Polish Diaspora and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1917 Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2011) 68 (1): 5–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/41289312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pienkos; Of Patriots and Presidents: America’s P…
An Effort at Understanding
Research Article| October 01 2011 AN EFFORT AT UNDERSTANDING: THE JANUSZ KORCZAK LECTURE SERIES IN MILWAUKEE, 1979-1989. BACKGROUND, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, SIGNIFICANCE DONALD E. PIENKOS DONALD E. PIENKOS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2011) 56 (3): 215–224. https://doi.org/10.2307/41550434 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation DONALD E. PIENKOS; …
Solidarity with Solidarity
Brother Against Brother
The pre-World War II political conflicts that characterized the life of the Polish National Alliance (PNA) fraternal society, the largest organization in the Polish immigrant and ethnic community in the United States, are largely forgotten today. But this prolonged and ideologically charged fight between two nearly evenly matched factions within the Alliance not only involved a battle for the soul of the PNA. To a large degree it affected the ent…
Recovering Solidarity
Book Review| April 01 2012 Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution, Gerald J. Beyer. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2012) 57 (1): 125–126. https://doi.org/10.2307/41557953 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Don…
Heroes of Solidarity
Book Review| April 01 2012 Heroes of Solidarity: Political, Philosophical, Psychological Perspectives Heroes of Solidarity: Political, Philosophical, Psychological Perspectives, Casimir J. Kowalski, Joseph P. Cangemi and Hilary S. Czaplicki. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2012) 57 (1): 132–133. https://doi.org/10.2307/41557957 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Be Not Afraid
Book Review| December 01 2013 Be Not Afraid: The Polish (R)evolution, “Solidarity” Heather Kirk, Be Not Afraid: The Polish (R)evolution, “Solidarity”, (Ottawa: Borealis Press, 2011), 276 pp., bibliography, index, photographs. ISBN 978-0-88887-428-3. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2013) 58 (4): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.58.4.0113 Cite Icon Cite S…
Unvanquished
American Polonia and Its Connection with Poland in The Polish American Encyclopedia
Research Article| October 01 2013 American Polonia and Its Connection with Poland in The Polish American Encyclopedia Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2013) 58 (3): 77–85. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.58.3.0077 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Donald E. Pienkos; American Polonia and Its Connection with Poland in The Pol…
The United States and the Rebirth of Poland, 1914–1918
Polonia Chicagowska w Dobie “Solidarności” 1980–1989 [Chicago Polonia in the Days of Solidarity, 1980–1989]
Book Review| April 01 2014 Polonia Chicagowska w Dobie “Solidarności” 1980–1989 [Chicago Polonia in the Days of Solidarity, 1980–1989] Janusz Wróbel, Polonia Chicagowska w Dobie “Solidarności” 1980–1989 [Chicago Polonia in the Days of Solidarity, 1980–1989], (Łódź: Instytut Pamieci Narodowej. Komisja Scigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Oddzial w Łódzi, 2012). 495 pp., bibliography, photographs, index. ISBN 978-83-63695-05-7. Donald Pie…
The Polish American Congress and the Organized Polish American Community Since 1999 Defining a New Mission After Poland’s Entry to Nato
The liberation of Poland from dictatorship and foreign domination, and its transformation into a democracy allied with the United States after its admission to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), fulfilled the original mission of the Polish American Congress (PAC), founded in 1944. This success brought with it the challenge of rethinking the organization’s objectives. For a variety of reasons, little was done to meet this challenge unt…
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution
Book Review| July 01 2015 Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland Jack M. Bloom, Seeing Through the Eyes of the Polish Revolution: Solidarity and the Struggle Against Communism in Poland, (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013), 428 pp., index, references. ISBN 978-90-04-23180-1. Donald E. Pienkos Donald E. Pienkos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review …
Poland
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989
Book Review| October 01 2017 Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989: Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe Andrzej Paczkowski, Revolution and Counterrevolution in Poland 1980–1989: Solidarity, Martial Law, and the End of Communism in Europe, (Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2015), xvi, 397 pp., notes, index, bibliography. Translated by Christina Manetti. ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-536-6. Donald E.…
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