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Catholic Church in Lower Silesia against Communism (1945–1974)
Post-war Lower Silesia was intended by the communists to be a "laboratory of socialism". Hence, they developed and pursued a special policy towards the Catholic Church. The book highlights the specificity of the pastoral ministry provided by the successive rulers of the Church in Wrocław (Karol Milik, Kazimierz Lagosz, Cardinal Bolesław Kominek) in the realities of the communist state. It shows the role of Cardinal Kominek who was persecuted for his attitude towards communists, his activity in the Polish Episcopate and in the forum of the universal Church. Moreover, it presents the system of repression aimed at diocesan clergy and religious orders and limiting theological education. With the objective of secularising the Lower Silesian society, the communists put emphasis on promoting their ideology, especially among the young generation. The Church responded with speeches by hierarchs condemning these activities and with pastoral initiatives to slow down the process.
Neither German nor Pole
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork ...
Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland
A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.
Starzyński. Prezydent z pomnika
Nowe i na nowo napisane wydanie pierwszej książki Grzegorza Piątka – Sanatora. Mityczny prezydent Warszawy zdjęty z piedestału. Bohaterski prezydent, wzór patriotyzmu, mąż stanu – tak postrzegamy człowieka, który stał się symbolem walczącej Warszawy we wrześniu 1939 roku. Czy aby na pewno był tak idealny? Grzegorz Piątek rzetelnie i z pasją odtwarza życie i karierę Stefana Starzyńskiego. Pokazuje despotycznego polityka, ale i autentycznie zaangażowanego w sprawy miasta działacza, opisuje mity, które nawarstwiły się przez lata. Dzięki temu otrzymujemy wielowymiarowy, pasjonujący portret jednej z najbardziej znanych postaci przedwojennej elity.
Studia śląskie
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Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
Von Paraguay bis Punk
English summary: Media, war and the experiences of combatants stand in ambivalent, partly contradictory relation to each other, which has been reflected and analysed in many ways by the various academic disciplines. Be it the experiences of Swiss mercenaries in the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay, the role of an officer of the Wehrmacht in the deportation of Greek Jews from Rhodes, the re-interpretation of Maya the Bee as a Nazi cartoon or trauma processing in folk and punk music - the contributions of the present volume take diverse approaches to the tense relationship between war, war experience and its representation in the media. The volume is completed with reviews and brief description...
