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2020-11-27 ARTICLES

The November Uprising: More Than a Romantic Rebellion

One of the several classic ‘Polish insurgences’: armed, bloody and lost. Apart from the romantic legend around it, it is distinguished by the fact that the episode lasting a year was unusually effective in unsettling things as they were. After the lost uprising, two paths of development, possible before, were not available to the Poles anymore: building a bourgeoise-based, autonomous monarchy and relatively correct relations with Russia. The trauma of the quashed insurgence and the repressions that followed made several generations of Poles have a preference for uprisings and consider Russia the cruellest of the partitioning powers.
2020-10-19 NEWS

Project "General Stanisław Maczek and his Soldiers" Distinguished in 2019 Edition of Sibyl Competition

The Polish History Museum’s project titled General Stanisław Maczek and his Soldiers has received a distinction in the Education category of the 40th 2019 edition of Sibyl (Sybilla in Polish), the Museum Event of the Year Competition. The award is the highest recognition for Polish museums.
2020-10-15 ARTICLES

The Peculiar Autumn of 1978: The Election of John Paul II. 42nd anniversary of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła election for Pope
2020-09-25 ARTICLES

Stefan Wyszyński: Interrex in handcuffs 67th nniversary of the arrest of the Primate

When it comes to the relationship between the Bolsheviks and monarchs, the arrest and subsequent murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family quickly come to mind. However, in other communist-occupied countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, monarchs were allowed to abdicate and secretly go abroad. What was it like in Poland?
2020-09-15 ARTICLES

Birth of Independent Free-governing Trade Union 'Solidarity': Behind the Scenes

31 August is considered the holiday of Solidarity (NZSS Solidarność) and the Gdańsk Accord signed on that day its founding act. However, the shape of the union was being ‘forged’ throughout the following several days. In August, there was no talk of a Polish nationwide organisation and a path towards it turned out a winding one. The uncertainty as to the possibility of setting up independent unions in the country’s other regions led to a new wave of strikes: in September they involved at least 650 plants and 350,000 persons.
2020-08-28 ARTICLES

Not just Gdańsk. The August 1980 Accords

It is generally believed that the accords with the state authorities were signed on 31 August 1980 in Gdańsk and nowhere else. The fact that similar agreements were signed the day before in Szczecin, and after Gdańsk also in Wałbrzych, Jastrzębie-Zdrój and Dąbrowa Górnicza, is largely unknown to the public. Yet it was all of them together that were at the origin of the difficult birth of the NSZZ ‘Solidarność’ (Independent Self-governing Trade Union ‘Solidarity’).
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