Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica
Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza “Czytelnik” and a friend and confidant of the members of the Polish Writer’s Union, in rallying the support of those circles for the political as well as social and economic changes that were taking place after World War II. The article shows the role and place of Jerzy Borejsza and his publishing house in the structures that managed the cultural live of the People’s Poland...
The article refers to two theses that exist in the communist historiography: 1) since the first years of the Polish People’s Republic, and even in the time of war, two fractions developed among the Polish communists with different viewpoints on how to introduce socialism in Poland: the so-called dogmatists wanted to copy the soviet model, while revisionists were looking for new ways of constructing...
The article is devoted to Edmund Jan Osmańczyk – the publicist, politician and a social activist who lived in the years 1913–1989. The author of the article focused on describing Osmańczyk’s social and political activity in the post-war Poland and tried to present the evolution that Osmańczyk’s views and attitude underwent. On the example of Osmańczyk, the author presented the transformation from...
of the Polish left-wing intelligentsia, and more precisely, the group that was regarded as revisionist by the leaders of the Communist party after the October of 1956. Apart from studying at the university, Beylin also attended the Institute for the Education of the Research Staff (Instytut Kształcenia Kadr Naukowych) – a school that educated the personnel of Marxism-oriented social sciences. In his...
The article analyzes the strategy of the activities of one on the most important Catholic groupings that functioned on the Polish political stage in the 1980s. In that time, Catholics had two options to choose from. The first option meant locking themselves from the existing social and political reality, withdrawing from the political activity and focusing on the formation work. The second was to...
After World War II, the authorities intensively monitored the attitudes of the priests. It was an element of the wide-ranging policy of weakening the position of the Church and disintegration of the clergy. In their reports, the apparatus of the Polish United Workers’ Party and the workers of the Ministry of Public Security of Poland and the Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs placed...
While looking for the ideological engagement of the pedagogy of B. Suchodolski we encounter three considerably different orientations. They correspond to different phases of his life that were marked out by the history and politics of our country. Professor B. Suchodolski always stayed in the main stream of the changes. In the pre-war period he followed the totalitarian ideology of the country and...
Searching for the means of contacting Germany by the independent circles in the reality of the People’s Poland was a sign of far-sightedness motivated by, among others, the Christian social thought. Loopholes as well as internal changes of the power and control apparatus were used to broaden contacts and get involved as many people as possible. The genesis of such attitudes can be found in much earlier...
The article is a reminiscent text devoted to the memory of Professor Leszek Dzięgiel, who deceased in 2005. He was an anthropologist, lecturer and a long-term head of the Ethnology Institute of the Jagiellonian University, an active member of the Polish Ethnological Society, a member of the Committee on Ethnological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ethnographic Commission of the Cracow...
With the onset of the People’s Poland, pre-war democratic or sanatian activists were regarded as potential enemies of the political system. Dr Józef Korpała, the director of the City Public Library in Cracow, did not belong to the organized anti-Communist opposition but, due to his extensive connections, was constantly induced to co-operate with the Third Voivod Office of the Public Security. Preserved...
The period of the functioning of the first „Tygodnik” (1945-1953) was in the intention of its leading editors, Jerzy Turowicz and Stanisław Stomma, the time of searching for the idea of functioning in the new, post-war reality. The diagnosis of the political situation showed the impossibility of carrying out any political activities that would lead to the confrontation with the authorities. It induced...
After over twenty years of experiences with rebuilding the values of democracy and democratic organizations in Poland, the time has come to undertake scholarly reflection on the past of the democracy as an ideological project and social practice in the era of real socialism. During the first decade of the second post-war period, the model of people’s democracy and then until 1956 the model of social...
Myth is a particularly efficient political tool as it imposes an undisputedly defined way of thinking, develops patterns of social behaviours and creates the language of the ruling class and the people. Thus, politicians willingly resort to the use of myths in political discourse. The article is an attempt to present the functions that the myths play and the types of myths that can be encountered...
The aim of the article is to reconstruct the conditionings of the dispute over the evaluation of the political strategy of Tygodnik Powszechny (General Weekly) in the People’s Poland that developed after the publication of Roman Graczyk’s book titled Cena przetrwania? SB wobec Tygodnika Powszechnego (The price of survival? The attitude of the Security Service towards the General Weekly). Presenting...
The article presents the profile of a prominent Polish historian who specialized in the Medieval Age, Prof. Aleksander Gieysztor, and the political conditionings of his professional career in the People’s Poland. Aleksander Gieysztor, a soldier of the September 1939, a member of Home Army in the years 1940–1944 and Freedom and Independence in 1945 was one of the most prominent Polish historians and...
The article describes the fractions and trends that functioned in the Polish United Workers’ Party in the 1980s. Creation of Independent Self-governing Trade Union “Solidarity” in 1980 and the political crisis connected with the event led to the loosening of the party’s discipline. Groups with a different point of view on the then political and economic situation started to develop. The most recognized...
Secret services are the field of interest of various circles whose evaluation is not always objective. Familiarizing with the direction of the activities, the tasks realized by the services, the structures or operative and exploratory activities in practice is always difficult as these activities are protected by the country under the pain of legal sanctions. In the process of realizing its functions,...
political parties in the Polish People’s Republic. In the introduction, it sketches the picture of “closing” the political system in Poland after World War II. It shows the initiatives aiming at reconstruction of the political parties that worked legally in the period of the Second Polish Republic and the outcome of their activities. Then, it discusses the history of the Confederation of Independent...
The weekly magazine Przyjacoiółka, the most popular magazine for women in the People’s Poland (and then in the Polish People’s Republic), like the whole press that was published at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s actively supported the pro-system reality. In an unambiguously positive way, it pronounced for the social, political and economic changes that were taking place in that...
The postulate of settling accounts with the Polish People’s Republic was supposed to serve the Law and Justice Party mainly as a building material for developing the exclusive community. The basic categories of such community include common good, specific tradition and practice that form the particularism of the community. By accusing the Polish People’s Republic of ideological denial of the society’s...