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The Polish Review
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Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000
The inhabitants of Vilnius, the present-day capital of Lithuania, have spoken various languages and professed different religions while living together in relative harmony over the years. The city has played a significant role in the history and development of at least three separate cultures—Polish, Lithuanian, and Jewish—and until very recently, no single cultural-linguistic group composed the clear majority of its population. Vilnius between Nations, 1795–2000 is the first study to undertake a balanced assessment of this particularly diverse city. Theodore Weeks examines Vilnius as a physical entity where people lived, worked, and died; as the object of rhetorical struggles between ...
Races to Modernity
The comparative presentation of the birth of metropolises like St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Belgrade, or Athens confirms the importance of the Western model as well as the influence of international experts on city planning at the periphery of Europe. In addition, this volume presents an alternative perspective that aims to understand the genesis of Eastern European cities with a metropolitan character or metropolitan aspirations as a process sui generis. The rapid expansion of metropolitan cities such as London and Paris began in the 17th and 18th centuries. Large parts of Central and Eastern Europe underwent urbanization and industrialization with considerable delay. Nevertheless beginning in the second half of the 19th century, the towns in the Romanov and Habsburg empires, as well as in the Balkans grew into cities and metropolitan areas. They changed at an astonishing pace. This transformation has long been interpreted as an attempt to overcome the economic and cultural backwardness of the region and to catch up to Western Europe.
Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas
As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisław Brzozowski (1878-1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of the volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point. They shed light on often surprising and hitherto underrated affinities between Brzozowski and intellectual figures and movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Furthermore, they explore the presence of his ideas in twentieth-century century literary criticism and theory.
Polacy na Kowieńszczyźnie – dawniej i obecnie
Dzieje ludności polskiej na Litwie Kowieńskiej nie są bliżej znane szerszemu kręgowi czytelników. Ukazanie działań podejmowanych przez władze litewskie wobec mniejszości polskiej na Kowieńszczyźnie pozwoli przeciwstawić się lituanizacji mniejszości polskiej na Wileńszczyźnie. Poza tym wydobycie z zapomnienia i ocalenie od niepamięci śladów polskości na Kowieńszczyźnie jest moralnym obowiązkiem, którego celem jest przywrócenie prawdy historycznej o mieszkających tam Polakach – dawniej i obecnie.
The Vilnius Review
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Vilnius
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