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2021-03-19 ARTICLES
Dialectical Emancipation - An interview with Professor Adam Leszczyński
My book deals primarily with the continuity of social relations. The most striking thing about this ‘long duration’ turns out to be the fact that the mechanisms of domination and the relations of subordination of ‘the people’ to the ‘elite’ are more durable than even the most revolutionary and drastic changes. You can change people in the structure of power, but the relations of domination remain largely the same,’ says Prof. Adam Leszczyński, author of Ludowa historia Polski [The People’s History of Poland] interviewed by Dr Mikołaj Mirowski.
2021-03-12 ARTICLES
The March Constitution of 1921. Compromise and modernity
Poland reborn after the First World War faced a host of challenges. In particular, the issue of the nature of the constitution provoked a heated debate in the country. The overriding aim of the Act was not only to consolidate the state after the years of partition, but also to create a solid foundation for its development.
2021-02-10 ARTICLES
GDYNIA: POLAND'S WINDOW TO THE SEA
 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF GRANTING CITY RIGHTS TO GDYNIA
2021-01-26 ARTICLES
Auschwitz. A Bitter Taste of Liberation
The end of Auschwitz came on 27 January 1945. That day, soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army took control of the vast camp area. About seven thousand prisoners, including several hundred children, lived to see liberation in Auschwitz, Birkenau and Monowitz. The majority of the nearly 60,000 prisoners in the entire camp complex had been evacuated earlier in what is called ‘death marches’ to the west. Since 2005, 27 January has been celebrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2021-01-19 ARTICLES
Like a Phoenix from the Ashes. On the 50th Anniversary of the Reconstruction of the Royal Castle in Warsaw
The former seat of Masovian dukes and Polish-Lithuanian monarchs has remained a symbol of Polish statehood for centuries. It was the venue of parliamentary sessions and witnessed triumphs (such as the homage paid to King Sigismund III by the Russian Tsar taken prisoner), but also shameful events, such as the consent of corrupt and intimidated MPs to the country’s First Partition. After Poland regained sovereignty, the writer Stefan Żeromski (known as the ‘conscience of the nation’) lived in the Castle before the President of Poland moved in there.
2020-12-02 ARTICLES
Professor Król
There are many professors, there are also quite a number of editors-in-chief, and a handful of university deans. Holding all those public posts, and then some, Marcin Król was just a historian of ideas to many. Like no other though, he used to open, make available and redefine entire areas of intellectual legacy, unknown, banned or forgotten before.
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.
2020-10-15 ARTICLES
The Peculiar Autumn of 1978: The Election of John Paul II. 42nd anniversary of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła election for Pope
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