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The Rise of Bolshevism and its Impact on the Interwar International Order
This book examines the international impact of Bolshevism in the period between the two World Wars. It explores both the significance of the ‘Bolshevik threat’ in European countries and colonies, as well as its spread through the circulation of ideas and people during this period. Focusing on the interplay between international relations and domestic politics, the volume analyses the rise of Bolshevism on the international stage, incorporating insights from India and China. The chapters show how the interwar international order was challenged by the ideology, which infiltrated a range of political societies. While it was incapable of overthrowing national systems, Bolshevism constituted a credible threat, which favoured the spread of fascist and nationalist trends. Offering the first detailed account of the Bolshevik danger at an international level, the book draws on multi-national and multiarchival research to examine how the peril of Bolshevism paradoxically allowed a stabilization of the post-World War I Versailles system.
Competing Memories of European Border Towns
This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars. In the twentieth century Europe’s borders shifted dramatically in the wake of war, and towns were often moved from one state to another despite their physical locations remaining unchanged. Urban spaces adapted to incorporate new place names, monuments, and requirements, overlaid onto the cultural heritage of previous settlers. This book investigates how the memories of different ethnic groups compete and sometimes contest with each other in the town’s space, using the case studies of Vyborg/Viipuri in present-day Russia, Klaipėda/Memel in Lithuania, Szczecin/Stettin in Poland, Flensburg in Germany, Trieste in Italy, and Rijeka/Fiume in Croatia. The book considers how public memories are built and how old traditions are moulded to new forms in urban settings. Drawing on perspectives from across borderland, urban, and memory studies, this book will be an important resource for researchers with an interest in Europe, and in how urban memories are constructed and contested.
BUNT, PODZIEMIE, WŁADZA
Książka ta opowiada o polskich komunistach i komunistkach: o ich doświadczeniach, poglądach, postawach i emocjach. Autor śledzi losy ponaddwustuosobowej grupy działaczy i działaczek od ich dzieciństwa, przez wieloletnią formację w nielegalnym ruchu rewolucyjnym w II Rzeczypospolitej, aż po lata powojenne, kiedy stanęli oni na szczytach władzy. Dzięki nowatorskiemu spojrzeniu, krytycznemu, a zarazem empatycznemu, uchwycona zostaje wielość „osobistych komunizmów” i mechanizmy ich ujednolicania, biograficzne zerwania i ciągłości, emancypacyjne marzenia i afirmacja przemocy. Łukasz Bertram, doktor nauk społecznych, socjolog, historyk. Pracownik Instytutu Studiów Polity...
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis
Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland
This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues. This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use ‘virtues’ as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the ‘nature’ of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be ‘virtuous.’
Catholics on the Barricades
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyła, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland's Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of "revolution." It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
This book goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global "market of ideas" and help rethink some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought and modernity.
Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland
Essays on the restoration and revival of Jewish sites in post-Holocaust, post-Communist Poland: “Highly recommended.” —Choice In a time of national introspection regarding the country’s involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in confl...
Trzy tłumaczki
Bez nich nie byłoby tysięcy arcyważnych książek. Gdyby nie tłumaczki i tłumacze nie znalibyśmy Szekspira, Austen, Homera, Colette, Balzaca, Hrabala, Manna, Link, Plath czy Hemingwaya – żeby wymienić zaledwie garstkę znakomitych zagranicznych pisarzy. Trzy tłumaczki to opowieść o Marii Skibniewskiej, Joannie Guze i Annie Przedpełskiej-Trzeciakowskiej – trzech wielkich i wybitnych polskich tłumaczkach. To także opowieść o ich wybitnych przekładach: Władcy Pierścieni J.R.R. Tolkiena (Skibniewska), Upadku oraz Człowieka zbuntowanego Alberta Camusa (Guze), Wściekłości i wrzasku Williama Faulknera (Przedpełska-Trzeciakowska). Ta książka powstała z kilku powodów: ...
