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Polska Ludowa w edukacji historycznej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The volume comprises theoretical considerations on historical education about The Polish People’s Republic (1944—1989) both in educational institutions and within the so-called public history, as well as proposals relating to practical solutions in this field. The content of the publication is the result of the collaboration between historians representing various scientific and didactic institutions and museums in the country.The first part of the book presents The Polish People’s Republic through various didactic means: anecdotes, jokes and gags, photography, Polish rock music and posters.The successive texts are so-called case study. With the example of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, the possibilities of using the press as a source of education about the Polish People’s Republic were described; through analysing the activity of the Oral History Archives of The Karta Centre and the History Meeting House in Warsaw, the utilising of oral history in education and research on The Polish People’s Republic was presented. Three of the authors referred to the resources of cinematography: they illustrated the role in the didactic process of a documentary (with the example of Polish Film Chronicle), a comedy (basing on the films by Stanisław Bareja) and a feature film (basing on the image of Death like a slice of bread by Kazimierz Kutz). The theoretical considerations were finished up with a text on the manner the theme of The Polish People’s Republic has been present in historical education in the school reformed after 2017.The last part of the book comprises studies that demonstrate the reader definite proposals for teaching / learning about the Polish People’s Republic. The authors, associated with the institutions they described, used in their sketches the attainments of the Institute of National Remembrance, the Center for the Documentation of the Deportation of Upper Silesians to the USSR in 1945 in Radzionków, the Silesian Centre of Freedom and Solidarity and the House of Polish-German Cooperation in Gliwice and Opole.

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Polska prowincja paulinów od XVII wieku do 1864 roku. Dzieje gospodarcze: klasztor na Jasnej Górze w Częstochowie

Author(s): Jacek Szpak / Language(s): Polish

The Pauline Monastery in Jasna Góra was founded by Prince Władysław Opolczyk in 1382. Within a short time, Jasna Góra became a popular place of pilgrimage for the faithful who came to worship the Blessed Mother depicted in the painting in the monastery chapel. Because of the development of the pilgrimage phenomenon, the sanctuary and the monastery quickly rose to fame, which brought about numerous religious and economic privileges. In order to undertake economic activity, the monastery and sanctuary had to have economic foundations. The most significant role in maintaining the institution was performed by the agricultural estates received by the Paulines from the founders and donors. However, the monks themselves also bought land estates or were involved in settlement activities. The agricultural estates owned by the Jasna Góra monastery were divided into formations called klucz. The Paulines of Jasna Góra were also engaged in farming activities in the estates that were in their possession temporarily — given to them as a pledge, i.e. guarantee of financial loans. The Paulines of Jasna Góra also received two items of klucz formations from the endowment by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. These were the Kłobuck and Brzeźnica starostship (district of starostwo), which constituted the financial base for the maintaining of the Jasna Góra fortress. In total, the monks were in possession of 4 cities and 83 villages and other settlement units. It must be remembered, however, that not all the properties were owned by the Pauline monks at the same time. The largest amount of properties was under the ownership of the Paulines in the 18th century. [part of the summary]

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Powrót do Macierzy? Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne w Polsce Ludowej

Author(s): Maciej Fic / Language(s): Polish

The Second World War, among numerous modifications in relation to Poland of the twenty-year interwar period caused considerable transformations of its state territory. In 1945, outside of Poland’s borders remained the so-called Eastern Borderlands lost to the Soviet Union — despite the misleading name, the said area encompassed close to a half of the interwar Second Republic of Poland. By way of reimbursement for the said lost, Poland gained from Germany the areas to the west and north of the 1939 Polish state borders. As a whole, this territory amounted to little over 100,000 sq. kilometres, and in 1939 was inhabited by circa 8.5 million people.The following areas were incorporated into Poland: West (Stettin/Szczecin) Pomerania, Lubusz Land, Lower Silesia, the western part of Upper Silesia (Opole Silesia), Warmia, Masuria and a part of Gdańsk Pomerania. The newly incorporated lands acquired many names in historiography and propaganda of the time: the “postulated lands,” “returning lands,” “Regained Lands,” or the Western and Northern Lands (hereafter ZZiP). The nomenclature became part and parcel of history politics instituted by the new authorities, which aimed at strengthening the “Piast Poland” vision (the state’s return to its “proper” national territory), meted out against the “Jagiellonian Poland” (understood as misguided Poland’s eastward expansionism).While planning the content of this book, the authors sought to restrict the contributors’ leeway pertaining to topics, particularly the territorial scope of the research presented. Instead of “vertical” perspective (i.e. presenting various spheres of activities undertaken across the entire ZZiP), the “horizontal” approach was taken, that is, the one showing the specific of the particular country areas comprising the lands in question. Our work is, therefore, a kind of journey through the subsequent, previously mentioned areas. (fragment of the introduction )

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Pruska elita władzy na Górnym Śląsku (1871–1918)

Author(s): Jakub Grudniewski / Language(s): Polish

The aim of this work is to present the power elite in the Upper Silesia (Opole region) of Prussia during the times of the German Empire (1871–1918). The initial caesura of the work consists in the unification of Germany under the aegis of Prussia. Shortly afterwards, important changes were made to Prussian domestic policy by issuing the district ordinance (1872), which was the legal basis for the functioning of the administration until the end of the monarchy. The introduction to the subject presents an outline of the administrative changes in the period preceding the annexation of part of Upper Silesia by Prussia – that is, in the time when it belonged entirely to the Habsburg Monarchy, and then in the time when most of the region was occupied by Prussia, incorporated administratively into the new state – and their evolution in the following decades, until the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the establishment of a new administrative unit within the Prussian state in 1815, the Opole Regency, by analogy with other Prussian regions, the permanent officials at the highest level of authority were the eponymous elite and as such, the main subjects of the study. These included the presidents of the Opole Regency, the landrats (district starosts) and the mayors of Upper Silesian cities. The presidents of the regency, as direct representatives of the royal authority, stood at the highest level of the administrative hierarchy. They were responsible for managing internal politics, i.e. internal security, supervising political movements, matters related to education, infrastructure and others. The starosts, also called the landrats in Prussia, were the most important representatives of the policy of the Prussian state in the districts, the people carrying out the ideas of the Prussian monarchy. Their competences included controlling police matters and supervising the collection of taxes, as well as approving the village leaders in the municipalities. The landrat also presided over the meetings of the district council (Kreistag) and headed the new district authorities (Kreisausschüsse). He was also responsible for the newly established office of the head of the police district (Amtsvorsteher). The mayors, who ruled the largest cities in the region, were among the most important people in local government administration, and this was an honorary function. On the basis of the research conducted on the group of the Prussian administrative elite in Upper Silesia after 1871, it has been possible to determine the model features of the representative of this group. The author, by making a quantitative and qualitative sociohistorical analysis, has focused on issues such as: social origin, regional origin, religion, education, membership in student societies, preparatory service, promotion paths, military service, additional qualifications and distinctions. This analysis was accompanied by examples of careers of the power elite in Upper Silesia. An interesting thread for the research on the history of Upper Silesia presented in this monograph is the activity of the examined groups in the context of social and economic events, political views, attitude towards processes and phenomena specific for Upper Silesia, such as the organized Polish movement or the Catholic Church, which has historically enjoyed a special position in the region. In this context, the monograph describes the participation of the elite of the administrative power in the policy of Kulturkampf in the 1870s, as well as the attitude to the Catholic Center Party and the fight against ultramontanism. At the end of the nineteenth century, members of the power elite in Upper Silesia had to face the emerging Polish movement, represented at that time by a faction of the Center Party, which at the beginning of the twentieth century took the form of a national movement led by Wojciech Korfanty. The year 1918, which is not only the date of the disintegration of the Prussian monarchy, but also that of the dismantling of the royal administration, constitutes the closing caesura. This work is the first ever comprehensive publication on the subject, the fruit of many years of research on a group of more than 100 people, based on many hitherto unknown sources (including those from the Secret State Archives in Berlin). As a result of this work, the author has created an extensive database of the highest-ranking officials of the Opole Regency. In addition, he has presented conflicts with the circles of high-ranking Upper Silesian industrialists and the contribution of the power elite to the creation of the image of Upper Silesia that we know to this day.

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Rycerstwo opolskie do połowy XV wieku

Author(s): Maciej Woźny / Language(s): Polish

Since the beginning of the 15th century, the Duchy of Opole went through subsequent stages of division into smaller duchies and repeated consolidation and division between the representatives of the Opole Piast dynasty. In turn, the local knights, who often held land in different regions of the land, needed to adapt to the changing districts. The first chapter discusses the division of the Duchy of Opole between the particular dukes. The borders of the administrative districts were in constant flux. It was also possible to notice the influence of knights possessing estates located along the borders on the subsequent shapes of the district border. Chapter two discusses the issues of terminology applied to the knights. It notices similar tendendcies in nomenclature with regard to the act of bestowing knighthood to other regions of Europe. The chapter also discusses the censure of knighthood. Chapter three is devoted to the composition and distribution of the knights of Opole. In the studied duchy, it was possible to identify more than three hundred families, of which in many cases there are only singular known representatives remaining. It is, therefore, difficult to assess the precise number of that social group in the studied area. Within the studied period of time, two families — the Bes family and the Strzała family — significantly surpassed other families when it comes to their wealth as well as, with time, their importance. The majority of the local families had medium or small (one village) estates, which could be extended through endowment from the local sovereign and subsequent purchase of land, coming to form a small complex of family holdings. This type of family development, which owed their prosperity to the duke, was a rarity according to the sources. For faithful service, local rulers rewarded knights with castles or towns. The knights owed predominantly allodial land and estates, even though some sources point to the existence of several estates which functioned as fiefdoms. Moreover, those families who arrived at the area from outside were in minority on the lands of the Opole Piast dynasty. Chapter four concerns the public activity of the knights of Opole. In a hundred and fifty years, he Duchy of Opole, similarly to the rest of Silesia, experienced significant changes in the structure of court and administrative offices. In the beginning of the 14th century, the most important official was the high bailiff, equivalent to the Silesian office of the palatine. The sources mention also the offices of the court justiciary, the master of the hunt, the deputy master of the hunt, and the procurator. In the second half of the 14th century, this hierarchy went through a gradual transformation, depending on the duchy. The most important office at court became the office of the marshal or chief steward. He was in charge of the treasurer, the master of the hunt, the deputy master of the hunt, the head chef and the chamberlain, whose function was reduced to managing the court servants. Apart from that, the chancellery also formed a part of the court office, though it was expanded only during the reign of Władysław II, who employed a chancellor. At other courts, those who worked at the chancellery were known as writers or notaries. The administrative offices underwent transformation as well. At the turn of the 14th century, the duchy was divided into castellanies, governed by a castellan. The local estates of the duke were managed by the steward. In time, the function of the castellan was diminished, while the official himself was more often known as a burgrave. Castellanies were substituted with districts. In this new administrative system, the most important office, apart from the duke himself, was that of a district head. He managed the stewards of local estates, justices of the peace as well as the burgraves who managed the castle and its crew.

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Toutowie. Język i pamięć w ustanawianiu wspólnoty Wiślan w Banacie

Author(s): Katarzyna Marcol / Language(s): Polish

The monograph is devoted to the issue of collective memory of an ethnic minority living in the Ostojićevo village in the Serbian Banat, whose roots trace back to the town of Wisła, located in the Cieszyn County. The members of this community are the descendants of 19th-century labor migrants who mined and brewed saltpeter for the purposes of the Austrian army, moving within the borders of one country from the Austrian Silesia to the southern reaches of the Habsburg dominion. With time, Evangelical saltpeter brewers started to settle in Banat, where the local Hungarian community named the newcomers the Touts, a moniker which comes from the word Tōth, used to denote settlers from Slovakia. It is estimated that currently, the size of this community oscillates between 120 and 150 people.The publication aligns itself with research on the relationship between language, culture and society, underscoring the determining role of language in one’s perception of the world, interpretation of social and cultural phenomena as well as its function in consolidating communities. Linguistics of memory, adopted as the research perspective, aims to showcase the interdependence between language as a medium of memory as well as a means of its preservation, and between the culture of a particular language community and its discourses (including the discourses of memory) that shape collective identification. The monograph shows — in the context of the transformations in the Tout collective memory — the way in which the language code influences the shape of that memory, as well as the way in which language, as a memory-shaping tool, can also serve as a tool of shedding inherited trauma, which, in turn, results in a transformation of the group’s identity. Due to the numerous factors that influence language as a tool in the process of shaping the collective memory of the community, which, as a result, influences the way the members of that community identify, the analysis has been conducted within a very precisely defined social context, taking into account historical determinants that constitute the foundation of the current social and political situation of the Tout community, as well as the inter-ethnic relationships in the local community.To provide a background for the analysis of the social memory of the Touts, the monograph describes the linguistic and cultural conditions of the multiethnic community of Ostojićevo. It discusses the linguistic competence of the minority group, taking into account their social arrangement, which includes different spheres of life: the Vistula dialect is characteristic of the sphere of family life; Slovak is the domain of the religious sphere; Hungarian is used in contact with neighbors and colleagues; Serbian is the official language of education and media, while Polish is used when interacting with the citizens of Poland as well as the officials at the Polish Embassy in Belgrade. The description of cultural practices (on the example of wedding customs) as well as inter-ethnic relationships in the rural society, on the other hand, unveils the dynamics of the transformation of objective markers of identity and the functioning of cultural patterns in specific instances of contact with others, which result in partial assimilation of the Tout community with the majority groups. The description of the communicative memory of the Touts, passed down in narratives of the past from generation to generation constitutes a major part of the monograph. It discusses stories of the ancestors, recorded during ethnographic field research, which — next to denomination and language — shape the Tout community. Intergenerational transfer, which solidifies the ethos of the Tout Evangelicals, allows them to participate in the collective knowledge and memory, which constitute the foundation of constructing the awareness of collective belonging. Moreover, the monograph describes the process of folklorization of remembrance stories, which has emerged as a result of conventionalization and objectivization of intergenerational transfer.The current transformations of communicative memory into cultural memory result in changes in the ethnic identity of the Ostojićevo Vistulans from local to national—Polish. The internalization of a new collective memory based on the Polish national symbolic universe is the result of actions on the part of various institutions of power, understood as various institutions of public life. As a result, new ways of affirming the Polish national identity appear, including linguistic tools (poems and songs in Polish) and creating new places of memory (Polish House) or introducing ways to differentiate between us and them (costumes for Polish folk music groups). The monograph is supplemented by an analysis of the rhetoric of memory in media messages, including Serbian television and documentaries, which, as multimedia texts of culture, emerge as carriers of memory, playing a large role in the shaping of collective identity.Memory, which reveals itself in narratives and discourses about the past as one of the ways to categorize the world (owing to the collectively sanctioned selection of what should be remembered and what should be forgotten), constitutes the basis of inculturation and identity creation among the members of a community. It should be noted, moreover, that the further we reach with our memory, the more difficult it becomes to verify the memories against reality, and the easier it become to notice the influence of language and culture on the picture it paints. The observation of the transitional stage between communicative memory and cultural memory, which can be currently witnessed in the Ostojićevo Vistulan community allows us to witness the role of language (understood in the broader communicative and cultural context) in transformation of memory and the following changes in identification.

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Uczeni z odległej i nieodległej przeszłości. Rekonstrukcje, interpretacje, refleksje

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Human life may be subjected to explanation, interpretation, reconstruction and even to constructing, from a certain point of view. In recent years a biography, both as a subject (the account of one’s life) and as a methodological orientation or a method of academic research, has been experiencing a renaissance. This, in turn, led the author to study biographies of researchers, in particular, to transpose their achievements to modern cultural resources of, especially, pedagogical sub-disciplines. According to the author it is not enough and to merely explore the institution of the university (or any other attended by high-school) or the social processes and mechanisms affecting such institutions. Among distinct advantages of a biography is also the fact that it provides personalized scientific facts which can only be known through empathy and reflexive astuteness, thus clearing the way to much-desired humanisation of learning. As a general rule, a biography portrays a person’s life story, in close association with his or her personality. This may prove useful in the interpretation of the life stories of researchers presented in this study. It may also be helpful when one undertakes to transpose the experiences of researchers to the system of views, beliefs and values of the recipients of their academic output. The thoughts contained in this book/work studied lead to numerous conclusions related (but not restricted) to the academic activity of the examined researchers.1 Biographies of researchers, irrespective of the epoch in which they lived, reflect specific features, tendencies and even regularities of their functioning. (fragment of the summary)

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Wędrówka ludów. Powojenny transfer ludności w Polsce Ludowej

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

World War II, post-war political changes, and demographic processes that accompanied them resulted in major changes in Polish society. Within the new borders, now moved to the west, the population of Poland was subject to migration of an unprecedented scale and scope, which effected a transformation of the country into an almost homogeneous state, with no national minorities. This volume aims to present this process on the basis of recent research findings, offering, on the one hand, a synthetic overview of some general or problematic issues (related to a particular factor or region) connected with migration in the first post-war decade and, on the other, an in-depth discussion of selected specific problems.The volume comprises eight articles by historians from research institutions situated in various parts of Poland. The opening paper by Arnold Kłonczyński (University of Gdańsk) discusses Polish emigration to Sweden in the years 1945–1989 and focuses on its consecutive waves, dominated by illegal emigration – first for political and later for economic reasons. Apart from the postMarch emigration, the article refers also to a very interesting problem of the so-called matrimony emigration, which was at its peak in the 1970s and concerned mostly young women getting married to Swedish citizens. Post-war migrations in the Pomerania re-gion are the focus of the article by Małgorzata Machałek (University of Szczecin), who discusses both migration processes of the 1940s and their continuation in the second half of the 1950s. The article by Bernadetta Nitschke-Szram (University of Zielona Góra) analyses two aspects of resettlement processes in Lubusz Land: the displacement of German population on the one hand, and the problem of the so-called native population and their attitudes towards the new Polish government, on the other. Stanisław Jankowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) addresses similar problems, taking into consideration the post-war administrative division of Poland (changed in 1950) and focusing on the area of both the former Poznań province and the eastern Brandenburg counties and Silesia, which after the war became Polish territory. The article by Maciej Fic (University of Silesia in Katowice) offers a synthetic perspective and presents the processes and the balance of migrations in Upper Silesia not only in the years immediately following World War II (and, partly, during the war) but also in a longer postwar period. Moreover, the author refers to the so-called Upper Silesian Tragedy, a taboo until 1989, when the Soviet security authorities deported tens of thousands of Upper Silesian inhabitants. Adriana Dawid (University of Opole) presents the results of a problem-focused source-based study. Referring to the rich archives of the province- and county-level units of the PZPR (the Polish United Workers’ Party), the author demonstrates the attitude of the Opole province party authorities towards migrations connected with the family reunification programme (targeted at Silesians and Germans) to East and West Germany. Jan Pisuliński (University of Rzeszów) addresses the problem of Ukraine population in Poland in the first post-war years. The author focuses on the origin, the process, and the results of the displacement programme (then referred to as evacuation), that is, the resettlement of Ukrainians to the territory of Soviet Ukraine. The article puts special emphasis on the enforced character of both external and internal migrations of Ukrainian people. In the final article in the volume, Arkadiusz Gawroński (State Archives in Białystok) discusses the problem of settling three counties which until 1945 were part of East Prussia, and after the war were included in the Białystok province. The author also makes reference to the preparations for relocating Polish people to more distant regions, the so-called Western and Northern Territories.The articles focus mainly on the first post-war decade, which was the most important period in terms of the effects of migrations. Although the volume does not aspire to provide a comprehensive survey of all problems related to post-war transfers of people, it demonstrates the variety of dimensions they had, their complexity, and their impact on the life of the in-habitants of postwar Poland. In some areas, the book presents the state of the art in the resettlement processes research and identifies those aspects which remain understudied and where further research is needed. Some of the articles also demonstrate the possibilities offered by sources which so far have not been extensively used or investigated, such as documents produced by the governing party, thus pointing to problems which need to be explored in order to gain more insight into the variety of contexts, circumstances, and long-term results of migrations. The volume contributes to the overall picture of migration processes in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and to the better understanding of the fate of those whom they concerned, and who were often victims of enforced, political decisions.

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Województwo mińskie i Jeleńscy w życiu publicznym Rzeczypospolitej w latach 1764–1795 w świetle ich korespondencji

Author(s): Dariusz Rolnik / Language(s): Polish

The Jeleński family of the Korczak coat of arms had been a well-known family in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since the second half of the 16th century. During the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, however, the family rose to prominence in the Lithuania, holding the Senate seat of the Castellan of Nowogród, which was passed down to the members of the family. It was, in fact, thanks to Stanisław August that Rafał, as well as his brother Gedeon, were raised to the senatorial seat as the first among the Jeleński family. The family was also, or maybe first and foremost, extremely influential in the Minsk Voivodeship, particularly in the Mazyr County, where the various members of the family as well as their relatives and kinsmen held almost absolute power in the local administration. Nonetheless, little has been written about this family’s influence in this area and in the Commonwealth in general — except for biographical notes in the Polish Biographical Dictionary and mentions in books of heraldry. The only mentions included singular instances regarding historic events in the Commonwealth. It should, however, come as no surprise, since the representatives of the family never amounted to anything more than — however influential — supernumeraries on the political stage of the Commonwealth. Nonetheless, due to their mutual interests with the Radziwiłł and Sapieha families, as well as their close ties with many old Lithuanian noble families, such as the Medeksza, Obuchowicz, Kościałkowski, Lenkiewicz, Rdłutowski, Romer, or Wolbek families, in addition to remaining in Stanisław August’s sphere of influence, the Jeleński family aspired to count among the elite of the Lithuanian province, one whose opinion should be taken into consideration.The study is founded upon the analysis of the Jeleński Family Archive, stored at the NationalHistorical Archives of Belarus (NGAB) in Minsk. Thanks to that archive, it has been possible to reconstruct the genealogy of the family as well as indicate its role and influence in the public life of the Minsk Voivodeship during the reign of Stanisław August. The monograph discusses the political engagement of the two most important representatives of the family: Gedeon and Konstanty Ludwik, counted among the elite of their times. They were not only skilled politicians, but also initiators of cultural and scientific development in Lithuania. Both of them betrayed deep interest in the issues of governance and broadly understood political thought — a topic which has been discussed in the first part of this monograph.The monograph consists of five chapters. The first chapter, entitled The Jeleński Family, ItsGenealogy, Multiplication, Connections — A Biographical Perspective, introduces the Jeleński family and provides a biographical perspective. According to all sources, the Jeleński family is descended from the Tatars, and Teodor, the progenitor of the family, came from Lithuania to Poland in 1549 as a knight in the service of Zygmunt August, fighting to defend the Commonwealth, which is probable but impossible to verify. Three important figures were supposed to be descended from Teodor: Paweł, who held the office of the Lithuanian Field Guard, as well as Maciej and Adam, commanders of infantry regiments who made names for themselves in the Livonia, Moscow and Prussia war expeditions. From these three descend the next generations of the Jeleński family, who founded the Jeleński Family Archive and who settled in Dunajczyce and Tucha, which can be regarded as the family nests of the Jeleński family (both were bestowed upon them by Zygmunt III). Moreover, the chapter touches upon the career paths of the selected members of the family and delineates the network of family relationships in the form of longer biographical notes constructed on the basis of the primary sources available in the archive which have been cross-referenced with other studies, books of heraldry and primary sources.The research findings are presented in a graphic form in chapter two, which includes thegenealogy of the Jeleński family. Chapter three: Between the Familia and the King’s Party; Between the Radziwiłł and the Sapieha Families and subsequent Between Politics and the Household serve as an introductory section while at the same time discussing the two most important factors which influenced the family’s position in the public life. The latter issue constitutes the subject of the fifth chapter: The Public Life of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania — From the Convocation Sejm (1764) to the Fall of the Polish Statehood (1795). During that time, many members of the Jeleński family remained active in the political sphere, while Gedeon, the most ambitious of the politicians in his family, became the most influential. The members of the family were chosen to be deputies and representatives for more powerful parties; nonetheless, they held no autonomous political power. In 1772, they aligned themselves with Stanisław August. During election sejmiks which elected county and voivodeship officials, the Jeleński family always invoked the good of the Commonwealth, under the motto “for the good of the motherland”. The common good, however, was often perceived by the Jeleński family from the perspective of the prosperity of their own province — both on a smaller scale, i.e. the Mazyr County, and on a grander scale, i.e. the Minsk Voivodeship and the entire Lithuania. That is why their efforts were mostly concentrated on bringing prosperity to the Mazyr County first, followed by the Minsk and Nowogród Voivodeships, and finally the Grand Duchy of Lithuania itself. Sometimes, however, the good of their province and the good of the entire Commonwealthdid not completely align, complicated by the private affairs of the Jeleński family, which bothremained at the forefront of their minds and influenced their subservient political nature. Moreover, all members of the Jeleński family — and Gedeon most of all — were uniquely talented with regard to securing their “rewards.”

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Wokół wolnych elekcji w państwie polsko-litewskim XVI-XVIII wieku. O znaczeniu idei wyboru – między prawami a obowiązkami

Author(s): / Language(s): Russian,Polish

The following studies collected in this volume are devoted to the subject matter of the royal elections in the political and legal tradition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealthbetween the 16th and the 18th century. The volume has been divided into three parts,comprised of thirty-five essays total. The first part, titled “On the Idea, Symbols and Practiceof Choice,” approaches the royal elections from the perspective of the study of political doctrine.The article by Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel presents examples of Old Polish political life which reflect the standpoint that the royal elections benefitted the Commonwealth in selecting the best candidates to the throne of Poland. Andrzej Stroynowski, in turn, focuses on both the benefits and the drawbacks of royal elections. Mariusz Markiewicz offers insight into the ways in which Polish royal elections were perceived in 17th century-Europe. Finally, an article by Jolanta A. Daszyńska constitutes a conclusion of sorts, as it touches upon the topic of the first presidential election in the United States of America understood as a reflection of the practical realization of the republican ideals of that young nation’s society.The second part of the volume, dedicated specifically to the particular elections of the rulers of the Commonwealth, is divided into six parts and ordered chronologically according to the individual rulers referenced in the articles. As a result, this part of the volume constitutes a synthetic overview of the evolution of the idea of the royal election in Polish political tradition between the 16th and the 18th century. This part of the volume begins with articles on the development of early modern political theory and praxis related to the elections in the times of the last of the Jagiellonian dynasty. Maciej Serwański, Tomasz Kempa, Jerzy Urwanowicz, and Dorota Gregorowicz write about the political praxis during the first royal elections, while Agnieszka Pawłowska-Kubik as well as Dariusz Dolański and Filip Wolański devote their articles to the conceptions of the royal elections in their initial stages (with regard to Zebrzydowski’s Rebellion and 18th century historical compendia respectively). In the parts devoted to elections during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa’s two sons as well as the reign of John III Sobieski, the authors discuss the issues of the relationship with the political elites (Anna Filipczak-Kocur, Maciej Franz), as well as the military (Przemysław Gawron, Zbigniew Hundert). In turn, Paweł Duda, MonikaKonrádová, and Aleksandra Ziober touch upon the diplomatic relationships with the Vaticanand the Holy Roman Empire, while Artur Goszczyński and Robert Kołodziej focuson the organization of the election. Eight of the articles in this part of the volume discussthe crucial Saxon period in the history of Poland. Mariusz Sawicki and Andriej Macuk discuss the attitude of the Commonwealth elites to the election of the Saxon kings. The diplomatic issues connected with European politics are elaborated upon by Aleksandra Skrzypietz (the correspondence of the Prince of Conti), Zbigniew Anusik (Swedish politics), and Urszula Kosińska (Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém’s candidacy to the throne of Poland).Moreover, this part of the volume focuses also on the important issue of the candidacy andelection of Stanisław Leszczyński to the throne of Poland, which is touched upon in differentcontexts in articles by Michał Zwierzykowski, Tomasz Ciesielski, and Małgorzata Durbas.Moreover, two articles are devoted to the era of Stanisław August Poniatowski: Arkadiusz M.Stasiak writes about the election of the king in the context of the God-given power of the king, on the basis of the election of 1764, while Henryk Kocój discusses the issue of electinga Saxon ruler during the time of the Great Sejm, in the context of the account of the Saxonianrepresentative to Poland, August Franz Essen.The last part of the volume is devoted to the election of civil servants in the Commonwealth.Andrzej Rachuba and Maria Czeppe discuss the influence of clergy on the decisions made at regional councils. Witold Filipczak presents the issue of the election of landed magistrates in the times of the Permanent Council, while Katarzyna Bucholc-Srogosz touches upon the election of the speakers of the Permanent Council. Tadeusz Srogosz discusses the issues with electing representatives and civil servants by the royalist faction at the regional council in Żytomierz in 1790. This part of the volume concludes with an article by Dariusz Nawrot, “Between the Commonwealth Tradition and the Rules of Centralized Power. The Election of Civil Servants in Lithuania in 1812.” The volume ends with an extensive bibliography and index.

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Za naszą i waszą wolność. Bitwa o Monte Cassino z perspektywy polskiej i włoskiej. Per la nostra e la vostra libertà. La battaglia di Montecassino vista da una prospettiva polacca e italiana

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Italian

The collection presents an overview of research into the essence of the Battle of Monte Cassino and the results of the victory of General Anders' soldiers from the point of view of Polish and Italian scientists. Having reached for previously not explored collections and archives, the authors present various aspects of the history of the Polish II Corps in Italy and make an attempt to shed light onto the less-known, complicated fate of this formation, which is so special in the history of Polish arms, as well as of individual soldiers fighting in it.

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Zapomniani książęta? Sułkowscy w XVIII–XX wieku

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech,Polish,Slovenian

The following chapters of the work have been devoted to the fate of the representatives of different lines of the Sułkowskis from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Adam Perłakowski outlined not only the subsequent stages of Aleksander Józef Sułkowski's political career, but also the source of economic power that allowed maintaining the family's splendour in the next generations. Jiří Brňovják, in turn, presented heraldic studies on the coats of arms and titles that had been bestowed upon Prince Aleksander Józef by Maria Teresa. Michał Zwierzykowski discussed the strategy of building the position of the family that was adopted by Prince August Sułkowski, and which enabled him and his brothers to receive the highest honours in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Grzegorz Madej presented the figure of Prince Franciszek Sułkowski, and juxtaposed two inventories of the Bielsko castle from 1786 and 1804, which facilitated getting to know the scope of the reconstruction of the prince's residence. Dariusz Nawrot recalled events in the life of Prince Jan Nepomucen Sułkowski during his greatest activity, when he aspired to play the role of the leader of the Polish uprising in New Silesia in 1807. Dawid Madziar presented the occurring at the same time beginnings of the military career of Prince Antoni Paweł Sułkowski, who was the organizer and a colonel of the 1st (9th) Infantry Regiment of the Polish Army in 1806 and 1807. In turn, Jarosław Czubaty recalled the figure of Antoni Paweł Sułkowski in the context of the circumstances surrounding his resignation from the position of the Supreme Commander in 1813. Miha Preinfalk presented the figure of Jožef Baron Dietrich, the source of his fortune and the circumstances surrounding the marriage of the Baron’s daughter with Prince Sułkowski. Piotr Kenig described the military careers of the consecutive family members in the Habsburg army. Jakub Krajewski presented the husbandry of the Princes’ forests in Bielsko and in the neighbourhood from the 18th to the early 20th century. Mojca Rjavec described the history of the line of the Sułkowski family connected with Bresternica near Maribor. Grażyna Sokół written an account of the complicated history of the Princes’ archives, which are invaluable for researching into the history of the Sułkowski family (From the introduction).

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