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Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era
Mapping the post-Cold War political landscape, this text puts forward a critical reading of the term "post-Cold War" and what it implies, the changes in the world market economy and the strengthening of regional units.
John XXIII
Angelo Roncalli was elected Pope in 1958 and in four and a half years, through summoning the Second Vatican Council and putting in hand a major revision of the code of Canon Law, had transformed the Roman Catholic Church. Through his personality and teaching, and his initiatives with world leaders, he gave the papacy a new vision and set before the Catholic Church a new version of its mission to the world. Today many people throughout the world see Pope John XXIII as one of the twentieth-century's most loved and influential figures.
The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe
Discusses one of the major currents leading to the fall of communism. Falk examines the intellectual dissident movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary from the late 1960s through to 1989. In spite of its historic significance, no other comprehensive survey has appeared on the subject. In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falks sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films (including Oscar winners).
The Long 1989
The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the s...
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
“Thought-provoking…[Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises." —Wall Street Journal Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed—refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples—causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl. In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first typhus vaccine using a method as bold as it was dangerous for its use of livin...
Against Anti-Semitism
Poland's relationship with its Jewish population has long been a subject of often agonizing debate. In September 1939, there were approximately 3.3 million Jews living in Poland, the largest population in Europe. In May 1945, between 40,000 and 60,000 remained. Most of the Nazi death camps had been located on Polish soil. The intertwined issues of wartime complicity and victimhood haunt Poland to this day, complicated by the unavoidable fact that anti-Semitism in Poland existed well before the outbreak of the Second World War, and has existed long after it. The deadly Kielce Pogrom in July 1946 appalled the world, since its victims were precisely those Jews who had miraculously survived anni...
Il secolo autoritario
Nessuno troverebbe da ridire di fronte all'affermazione che il secolo degli autoritarismi sia stato, per antonomasia, il Novecento, con due regimi nazifascisti che hanno incendiato l'Europa e innescato la Seconda guerra mondiale e la creazione, a Oriente, di quello che diverrà il blocco sovietico, sopravvissuto fino al 1989. Paolo Mieli parte proprio dalle scintille del conflitto, dal patto Molotov-Ribbentrop e dai «protocolli segreti» che hanno segnato anche il lungo periodo postbellico (e perdurano nella retorica putiniana) per impostare un'analisi attenta dell'eredità che ancora scontiamo del secolo scorso. Concentrandosi in apertura sull'ombra nera dei regimi tedesco e italiano, il l...
Angst
Bei Pogromen gegen Juden wurden in Polen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mehr als 1500 Menschen getötet. Woher kam dieser Haß? Wieso nahm der Antisemitismus derart aggressive Formen an? Jan T. Gross zeigt, wie sich der traditionelle katholische Antisemitismus durch die deutsche Besatzung radikalisierte und nach der Befreiung durch die Rote Armee fortbestand, vor allem im Glauben an einen »jüdischen Bolschewismus«. Der Autor schildert die Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der polnischen Gesellschaft um das Verhältnis zu den Juden, er zeigt detailliert, wie es 1945 und 1946 zu den großen Pogromen von Rzeszów, Krakau und Kielce kam. Diese waren keine Erscheinungen am Rande der Gesellschaft, sondern sie fanden mit Unterstützung der Bevölkerung statt. Gross sieht im polnischen Antisemitismus ein Zeichen der »Angst«: die Angst vor den Rückkehrern und nicht zuletzt die Angst, den Besitz der jüdischen Nachbarn wieder zu verlieren, den man sich unter den Deutschen angeeignet hatte.
Idąc przez puste Błonia
"Ksiądz Tischner należał do najbliższych współpracowników kard. Karola Wojtyły, a potem Jana Pawła II. Pod patronatem Papieża współorganizował (razem z Krzysztofem Michalskim) Instytut Nauk o Człowieku w Wiedniu, a także słynne konferencje intelektualistów w Castel Gandolfo. Wiele artykułów poświęcił pontyfikatowi Jana Pawła II. Nowa książka jest wyborem dokonanym właśnie spośród tych tekstów. "
Ksiądz na manowcach
"Ostatni zbiór esejów i artykułów ks. Józefa Tischnera wydany za jego życia. „Sam jestem zaskoczony ” – pisał autor – „przestrzenią, jaka się tu zarysowała: od spraw konkretnych, wydarzeń politycznych, aż po kwestie związane z największymi tajemnicami Boga”. W istocie bohaterami tej niezwykłej książki są m.in. papież Jan Paweł II i żydowski myśliciel Franz Rosenzweig, średniowieczny teolog św. Anzelm i współczesny filozof Charles Taylor, schizmatycki arcybiskup Marcel Lefebvre i środowisko skupione wokół „katolickiego głosu w Twoim domu”. A bohaterem zbiorowym – my wszyscy, szukający drogi na rozmaitych „manowcach” współczesnego świata "
