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By reading Zygmunt Bauman’s famous study critically, this text attempts to show how both the brilliant analyses, observations, and intuitions contained in Modernity and the Holocaust and its errors and distortions can still serve as important guideposts for further studies of the Holocaust in Polish lands and in Central and Eastern Europe even today, some thirty years after publication. What remains...
Götz Alys 2017 erschienenes Buch Europa gegen die Juden 1880–1945 schreibt den Ansatz seiner sechs Jahre zuvor publizierten Abhandlung Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden? Gleichheit, Neid und Rassenhass fort. Beide Bücher beleuchten den Einfluß von Mißgunst und Neid auf sozialpolitische Maßnahmen im Europa der Zwischenkriegszeit – sowohl auf solche, die ‚soziale‘ Gerechtigkeit verwirklichen sollen,...
The paper is an attempt at summarising Józef Mackiewicz’s views concerning the idea of resurrection of the statehood of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the interwar period. Its objective is to present the cultural and political foundations for the project in question that were present in deliberations of the so-called ‘Vilnius natives’ but also sources that are basically absent in the domestic thought...
W artykule przedstawiono dwie tezy, które nie zostały dotąd w nauce sformułowane: 1) europejskie narody nie powstały jako produkt „nacjonalizmu”, lecz są następstwem występującego w Europie – jako zjawisko towarzyszące modernizacji – asynchronicznego, głębokiego kryzysu tożsamości, w toku którego poddano w wątpliwość stare zależności i systemy wartości. Nowe protoobywatelskie społeczeństwo (mówiąc...
The article aims at characteristics of the multiple approaches to the theory of the political culture of the Balkan countries. The text begins with a theoretical definition of the concept of the political culture, follows the analysis of the some views on culture and society in the Balkans. The study is focused mainly to three countries of the former Yugoslavia – Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. The...
The paper attempts to describe a complicated history of the public monuments erected in Eastern Europe in the course of modern history - from Lenin's favourite pet-project, the Plan for Monumental Propaganda from 1918, making use of public monuments for propagation of Communism, through the wave of demolitions of a series of bronze or marble statues of pro-soviet politicians in its satellite states...
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