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2022-10-31 ARTICLES
An Interview with Dr. Karolina Grodziska: the Genesis of Customs Specific to All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day
Withal, do not forget the deade: whatever your stacyon, take this dae to remember your father’s soule, and your mother’s, and the soules of your compeers.
2022-09-26 ARTICLES
A Manifesto on Seven Canvas Paintings
On 30 April 1939, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Albert Einstein officially opened the New York World’s Fair. Before this could happen, a group of artists, people from the fields of culture and science, as well as government representatives, had been working intensively for over a year on the Polish Pavilion. The idea behind it became clear: Poland meant nearly a thousand years of statehood and a unique culture based on unchanging values.
2022-08-30 ARTICLES
Krzysztof Mazur: The Gdańsk Agreement as a political experiment
The nature of the August 1980 strikes was not unlike that of a social contract. Tens of thousands of individuals who took industrial action had agreed between themselves that society must be restored after years of enduring erosion and decay at the hands of the Communist regime.
2022-08-12 ARTICLES
The Polish-Bolshevik War: The heroic Nation Rescued Itself
The Battle on the Vistula was the biggest  in the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1919–1920. The battle between the Vistula, Niemen and Bug Rivers still surprises with its dramatic action and unexpected reversals.
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.
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