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Against Anti-Semitism
Adam Michnik, one of Poland's foremost writers and intellectuals, and Agnieszka Marczyk gather together the definitive wisdom and discussion of Poland's complex history of anti-Semitism and its legacies.
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape of twentieth century East-Central Europe under the unifying theme of 'precariousness' as a mode of historical existence. Caught between empires, often marked by catastrophic historic events and grand political failures, the countries of East-Central Europe have for a long time developed a certain intellectual self-representation, a culture that not only helps them make some sense of such misfortunes, but also protects them somehow from a collapse into nihilism. An interdisciplinary study of this sophisticated culture of survival and endurance has been long overdue. Not only is it charming and w...
The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
Essays and comments presented at an international conference held at University of Ottawa, Oct. 9-10, 2008.
Reassessing Communism
The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project ...
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.’
Rote Bürger
How, and particularly why, did the "leftist"-leaning faction of the democratic opposition in Poland arise? Agnes Arndt looks at the social and gender-specific perspectives that were present in the beginnings of the Polish leftist dissidents. She poses, and answers, questions concerning the bourgeois and often Jewish background of the main actors. She also looks at their relationship to the Communist authorities, the Polish nation and the primarily Catholic Polish society.
Krzycz! Teraz!
Krzycz! Teraz! to pierwsze słowa, które słyszy Miłosz, bohater powieści, po przyjściu na świat, kiedy nie potrafi złapać oddechu. Słowa, być może, ratujące mu życie. Na stronach niecierpliwie oczekiwanej nowej powieści autora Wszystkich języków świata wraz z bohaterem przeżywamy kolejne punkty zwrotne w jego biografii – rodzinne dramaty, inicjacje emocjonalne i seksualne, perypetie zawodowe i zdrowotne, późno odnalezioną pierwszą miłość. A wszystko to osadzone w Polsce lat 1951–2021 z wiernie odmalowaną całą jej świetlistą i bolesną historią. Krzycz! Teraz! to przede wszystkim opowieść o zanurzeniu w samotności, o poszukiwaniu głębokich relacji i sen...
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...
The Polish Review
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