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2022-03-04 ARTICLES
Bronisław Geremek: from history to politics. On the 90th anniversary of his birthday
Bronisław Geremek was a man of many passions: history and politics were the most important among them. His political achievements are much more noticeable because of their social impact and significance for the Polish state. Geremek embodied the successes of the foreign policy of post-1989 Poland: the country’s accession to NATO and the European Union. Both his competence and achievements in this area were related to his prime passion - history.
2022-03-03 ARTICLES
Łukasz Adamski: Russia wants to restore the Yalta order
A few days ago, Russia carried out an armed assault on Ukraine, causing a hybrid war to turn into a regular one. How can we understand this move by Putin? What have the relations between Russians and Ukrainians looked like over the course of history and what divides them most in it? We talk about this with Dr Łukasz Adamski, Deputy Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding.
2022-03-02 ARTICLES
Piłsudski and Petliura: Together against the Bolsheviks
As soon as Poland regained independence, it became an advocate of creating a Ukrainian state. Piłsudski championed the idea of a federation according to which Lithuania and Belarus were to be linked to Poland on the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. According to that concept, Ukraine was to be a sovereign state, with Symon Petliura as its leader.
2022-02-18 ARTICLES
Władysław Bartoszewski as an ambassador of the Polish cause over the course of history
In Poland, one of the most frequently quoted maxims is ‘It is worth being decent’. Its author, Władysław Bartoszewski, was born 100 years ago, and seven years have passed since his death. For several decades he was one of the most characteristic figures of Polish public life: a Catholic and anti-communist, an independence activist and Home Army soldier, a political prisoner during communist rule, and a friend of Jews and Germans. On several occasions, his energetic temperament and sharp tongue put him in the middle of political controversies.
2022-02-07 ARTICLES
The Home Army as a global phenomenon
The uniqueness of the Home Army is something much discussed. What was it all about? What can be considered the organisation’s greatest success? What place does it occupy in the Poles’ collective consciousness? Reflection on the subject is taken up by Dr Tomasz Łabuszewski, Head of the Branch Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw.
2021-09-16 ARTICLES
SEPTEMBER 1939 AS A "SITE OF MEMORY" FOR BELARUSIANS SOVIET ATTACK ON POLAND AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR BELARUS
2021-07-30 ARTICLES
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-1795. Light and Flame
2021-05-26 ARTICLES
Stefan Wyszyński was first of all a teacher and became a statesman out of necessity
Poland bids farewell to a hero not wearing a crown or a general’s uniform but a priest’s cassock. We bid farewell to the one who achieved the greatest victory in the 20th century, although his only weapon was the cross, his only strength faith and his only army the defenceless but faithful Polish people. This is how Jan Nowak Jeziorański informed the listeners of Radio Free Europe 40 years ago (on 28 May 1981) about the death of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. Rafał Łatka, a historian and political scientist from the Historical Research Office of the Institute of National Remembrance, talks about the role of the Polish primate in the fight against communism.
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