Article 2024
Authors / editors: Dariusz Śmierzchalski-Wachocz
Published in: Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie
After World War II, the communist security apparatus blackmailed, persecuted and murdered priests who resisted the government. In every political trial against Polish citizens, some priest or other clergyman sat on the defendants’ behalf. In addition to the accusations of inciti…
DOI: 10.18276/skk.2024.31-11 · ISSN: 1230-0780
Article 2023
Authors / editors: KINGA SIEWIOR
Published in: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
The article presents a critical review of Agnieszka Mrozik’s book The Women Architects of People
Republic of Poland. Communist Women, Literature and the Emancipation of Women in Postwar
Poland (Warsaw 2022).
DOI: 10.18276/au.2023.2.21-18 · ISSN: 2353-8694
Article 2023
Authors / editors: MAJA JARNUSZKIEWICZ
Published in: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
The paper is an interpretation of four autobiographical text’s od Wiktor Woroszylski (Materiały do
życiorysu (1956); Nasza łódzka młodość (1962), Bez imienia (1976)). They are an example of “settling
accounts” narrative with the period of post-war communist youth (considered, a…
DOI: 10.18276/au.2023.2.21-16 · ISSN: 2353-8694
Article 2023
Authors / editors: ERYK KRASUCKI
Published in: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
The phenomenon that is communism still arouses many emotions. Especially in countries where
attempts were made to put its ideas into practice, such as Poland. For this reason, the study of
its history – absurd though it may seem – also generates controversy. Of no small importa…
DOI: 10.18276/au.2023.2.21-04 · ISSN: 2353-8694
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Dariusz Śmierzchalski-Wachocz
Published in: Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie
Communism, a totalitarian system that wanted to oversee all spheres of public life and in some cases also of private citizens. One of the institutions fulfilling this task was censorship, functioning in all countries of the so-called People’s Democracy. It supervised verbal and w…
DOI: 10.18276/skk.2021.28-22 · ISSN: 1230-0780
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Dariusz Śmierzchalski-Wachocz
Published in: Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana
The release of the decree on the freedom of conscience and faith from 5 August 1949 was the consequence of the struggle between the communist government in Poland and the Catholic Church. A decree – in the hands of the officials of the time – was a tool used primarily to repress …
DOI: 10.18276/cto.2021.37-13 · ISSN: 1731-0555
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Dariusz Mazurkiewicz
Published in: Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana
The post-war internal policy of the communist authorities of the Polish People’s Republic was aimed at taking over all aspects of social life. Therefore, this policy could not ignore the interest in the community dimension of human religiosity, as it was seen as a threat to build…
DOI: 10.18276/cto.2020.36-13 · ISSN: 1731-0555
Article 2020
Authors / editors: KAROLINA KRASUSKA
Published in: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
The article analyzes the graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (2017), a literary text
that belongs to a dynamically developing post-Soviet Jewish American writing, as a transgenerational
(auto)biographical narrative of a great grandmother and a great granddaughte…
DOI: 10.18276/au.2020.1.14-11 · ISSN: 2353-8694
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Dariusz Śmierzchalski-Wachocz
Published in: Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie
On December 16, in 1978, the election of the Polish Pope John Paul II awakened the Catholic Church in Poland and the society itself. The first pilgrimage of the Pope to Poland in 1979, that couldn’t be realized in 1966 as a pilgrimage of the Pope Paul VI, encouraged Polish people…
DOI: 10.18276/skk.2020.27-29 · ISSN: 1230-0780
Article 2020
Authors / editors: Bohdan Halczak
Published in: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski
The article shows the complex figure of Jan Lembas (1914–2000). A family member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), a member of the Home Army (AK), who came out of the family traditionally associated with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) during the occupation, turned into an ard…
DOI: 10.18276/pz.2020.4-04 · ISSN: 0552-4245
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Petr Bělovský
Published in: Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The distribution of property in society is a fundament of communist ideology, which in Czechoslovakia was regulated by two Civil Codes. In the process of reforming the entire legal system, the purpose of both codes was, besides property regulation, also to transform the perceptio…
DOI: 10.18276/ais.2019.27-14 · ISSN: 2083-4373
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Petr Bělovský
Published in: Acta Iuris Stetinensis
The distribution of property in society is a fundament of communist ideology, which in Czechoslovakia was regulated by two Civil Codes. In the process of reforming the entire legal system, the purpose of both codes was, besides property regulation, also to transform the perceptio…
DOI: 10.18276/ais.2019.27-02 · ISSN: 2083-4373
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Anna Rozenfeld
Published in: Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
With the Shoah, the number of speakers of Yiddish was brutally reduced; thus, Yiddish culture was destroyed. In the immediate post-war period, there were initiatives in Poland to preserve and revive the remnants. The article deals with various such manifestations, in particular w…
DOI: 10.18276/cgs.2019.28-03 · ISSN: 2450-8543
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Tymoteusz Kochan
Published in: Nowa Krytyka
The article sums up the dystopian theory of the „administered world” of the future by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer and the theory of communist society created by Karl Marx. The main idea is that bothare part of the same future global system: the universal, administered co…
DOI: 10.18276/nk.2018.40-06 · ISSN: 0867-647X
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Florian Nowicki
Published in: Nowa Krytyka
The article is an attempt to develop two of Marx’s thoughts (appearing in Grundrisse):
– the final result of production is always a man,
– the real richness are developed creative forces of individuals.
Serious treatment of the above theses implies a thorough modification of t…
DOI: 10.18276/nk.2018.40-04 · ISSN: 0867-647X
Article 2018
Authors / editors: Michał Siedziako
Published in: Acta Politica Polonica
The Fighting Solidarity was one of the main organizations of the democratic opposition
in Poland in the 80s of the 20th century. In comparison with the other opposition groups
its distinguishing feature was the radical anti-communism, which was expressed in the
postulate of ov…
DOI: 10.18276/ap.2018.44-07 · ISSN: 2451-0432
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Jakub Papuczys
Published in: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
The article examines boxing in Poland through its political history and cultural representations. The author focuses on boxing films and novels created in 1950s and 1960s and in particular Julian Dziedzina’s fictional movie based on real boxer’s (Marian Kasprzyk’s) biography Boks…
DOI: 10.18276/au.2017.2.9-09 · ISSN: 2353-8694
Article 2016
Authors / editors: Florian Nowicki
Published in: Nowa Krytyka
The article presents the critique of European universalism as a form of rule and domination.Capitalist democracy is opposed to the idea of democracy axiological, which is open to regionalforms of its institutional implementation.
ISSN: 0867-647X
Article 2015
Authors / editors: Michał Siermiński
Published in: Nowa Krytyka
The article presents the political views of Leszek Kołakowski in the late seventies and early eighties. It is shown that his views in the age of “Solidarność”, contrary to widespread belief, were clearly non-leftist. Kołakowski rejected not only the socialism and the idea of revo…
DOI: 10.18276/nk.2015.35-03 · ISSN: 0867-647X