Zapomniany „biały kruk”. Ukraina w myśli Mariana Kamila Dziewanowskiego (1913–2005)
The Forgotten “Rare Bird”. Marian Kamil Dziewanowski’s Vision of Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a page of Ukrainian history providing an insight into the life in exile of a historian– Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (1913–2005). On the basis of previously unknown documents from Polish and Ukrainian archives in the United States as well as existing literature on the subject, a network of Dziewanowski’s Ukrainian connections was outlined, and his vision of the history and contemporaneity of Ukraine in the context of Polish political thought, the tradition of Prometheism and the stereotypes prevalent in the West with respect to Ukrainian history was analysed. By applying tools used in the history of ideas, the intellectual biography of the protagonist was presented against the post-war evolution of the Promethean movement, its tactics and modus operandi in the new geopolitical conditions determined by the Cold War. Analysis concerned the federalist vision of Central and Eastern Europe created by Dziewanowski, for which the most important inspiration was the thought of Marshal Józef Piłsudski. This article is part of a broader study concerning the contribution of Polish historians in exile to the formation of Ukrainian studies in the United States after World War II.

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