Spory o romantyzm i realizm historyczny na łamach prasy polskich katolików świeckich w latach 1945–1953
Disputes on romantism and historical realism in the Polish lay Catholics’ press in the years of 1945–1953

Summary/Abstract: Polish secular Catholics in their press in the first post-war years often dealt with the assessment of Polish national uprisings and the conclusions that could be drawn from them for the present and future. However, these narratives were not only depreciating for anti-Russian uprisings, but tried to understand the motivations of their participants. It has often been written about the need for political realists to consider “realism in relation to the feelings of the nation” but also to shape attitudes towards the rational assessment of political phenomena. Texts that were extremely romantic but also extremely realistic and pacifist were published. The discussions and polemics presented resulted from both disappointment with the results of the war and the failure of their own ideas. Awareness of losses recently suffered by the Polish nation as a result of the implementation of insurgent policy and the conviction that the next uprising could bring disastrous effects for the community had a great impact on their formulation. The most characteristic of the dispute between realists and romantics about the very definition of these concepts, the discussion of “Monte Cassino” in the pages of “Tygodnik Powszechny” proved a certain ideological confusion of journalists, desperate to find themselves in a new reality.

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