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On the Polish national and territorial autonomy in Lithuania (the Spring–Summer of 1991)AbstractA new system of Polish-Lithuanian relations was shaped manly by the passivity of Poles inhabiting the eastern Lithuania in the plebiscite organised by the Lithuanian government on 9 February 1991, and a decision of the authorities of Vilnius and Šalčininkai (Polish: Sołeczniki) regions to hold a referendum,...
“Anti-colonial intellectual” Anton Lutskievich and “hybrid nationalist” Otto Eichelman. A comparative study of the federalist utopiasAbstractIt is not an easy task to compare Lutskievich’s federalist ideas with a project by Otto Eichelman. As a Belarusian activist, he perceived federalism as a political system within a great state project – a Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Eichelman on the other hand sought...
Bulgarians and Bulgaria in the last quarter of the 19th century in the publications of Jan Grzegorzewski (internal policy, foreign policy)AbstractThe period of five-century “Turkish yoke” of the Bulgarian lands brought up many deep and multifaceted changes in almost all areas of social life. The Bulgarian population, pushed aside on the margin of social life and deprived of almost all public rights,...
Is Every Pole a Catholic? – the Borderland Quandaries of Nationality and Religion Faced by Russian Bureaucracy in a 1910 Ministry of Internal Affairs DocumentAbstractDuring the long process of introduction of zemstva (organs of local government) to the Western guberniyas of Russia (began in 1906), there was once again the problem of domination of Polish landlords within the social structures as well...
The Nationality Issue on the Peripheries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Polesie in the Interwar PeriodAbstractThe territory of Polesia in the interwar period was an area of competition between the national movements of Belarusian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian communities. In the Polesia Province, the scope of activity and intensification of national factors were not the same. An influence...
Chełm Orthodox Diocese as Mentioned in the Gazeta Ludowa. Tygodnik Ilustrowany Weekly from 1915 to 1918AbstractDuring the First World War the illustrated weekly Gazeta Ludowa. Tygodnik Ilustrowany was associated with peasant parties: the Polish Peasant Party “Piast” (Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe “Piast”) and the Peasant Union (Zjednoczenie Ludowe). An analysis of the weekly makes it possible to observe...
Degeneration of the Homosexual Phantasm in Normalised Czechoslovak Cinema: from Václav Krška’s The False Prince (1956) to Stanislav Strnad’s The Bronze Boys (1980)AbstractThe author – inspired by the notion of “phantasm” as proposed by Maria Janion, and using the concepts of, among others, German Ritz (the poetics of inexpressible homosexual desire and “complex of corporality”), Marc Ferro (film as...
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the October Revolution (1967) – a Generational Turnover and the Politics of Memory of the USSRAbstractCelebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution revealed important changes in the politics of memory pursued by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. With the use of methodology of research on memory, in the article I put forward the thesis that the...
In Search of a New (National) Historical Record – the Republic of Belarus of 1991–1994AbstractThe final stage of the Soviet Union and the creation in 1991 of a new Belarusian state were characterised by big political whirls. There was the need in a new, post-Soviet reality, for a different look at the nation’s own history. Increasingly strong was national narrative, emphasising the importance of political...
Gabriele D’Annunzio Coup in Rijeka (1919–1920) in the Context of Italian-Yugoslavian RelationsAbstractThe question of domination over the Adriatic Sea was a thorny issue in the interwar relationship between Italy and Yugoslavia. The dispute over the city of Rijeka (Fiume at that time), which after the coup launched by Gabriele D’Annunzio in September 1919 further aggravated the relations of Italy...
The problem of nationality on the periphery of Central Eastern Europe. The case of Polesia between the two warsAbstractThe territory of Polesia in the interwar period was an area of competition between the national movements of Belarusian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian communities. In the Polesia Province, the scope of activity and intensification of national factors were not the same. An influence...
The fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution (1967) – a generational change and historical policy of the USSRAbstractCelebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution revealed important changes in the politics of memory pursued by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. With the use of methodology of research on memory, in the article I put forward the thesis that the utopian...
Degeneration of homosexual phantasm in the normalised Czechoslovak cinema. From the Labakan by Václav Krška (1956) to Kluci z bronzu by Stanislav Strnad (1980)AbstractThe author – inspired by the notion of “phantasm” as proposed by Maria Janion, and using the concepts of, among others, German Ritz (the poetics of inexpressible homosexual desire and “complex of corporality”), Marc Ferro (film as a...
Is every Pole a Catholic? – borderland, national and religious dilemmas of the Russian bureaucracy in a 1910 document of the Ministry of Internal AffairsAbstractDuring the long process of introduction of zemstva (organs of local government) to the Western guberniyas of Russia (began in 1906), there was once again the problem of domination of Polish landlords within the social structures as well as...
In the search of a new (national) historical message – Republic of Belarus 1991–1994AbstractThe final stage of the Soviet Union and the creation in 1991 of a new Belarusian state were characterised by big political whirls. There was the need in a new, post-Soviet reality, for a different look at the nation’s own history. Increasingly strong was national narrative, emphasising the importance of political...
Prawo do obfitości: zachodni materializm w kontekście „prestiżowej konsumpcji” w ZSRR w latach pieriestrojki (druga połowa lat osiemdziesiątych)StreszczenieArtykuł dotyczy początków społeczeństwa konsumpcyjnego w czasach pieriestrojki oraz wartości, jaką dla mieszkańców ZSRR miały towary z importu, niezależnie od ich jakości czy marki. Autorka opisuje typy importu prywatnego i państwowego aż do rozluźnienia...
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