Books in the Studies in History, Memory and Politics series

Der Band prasentiert die Ergebnisse der ersten gemeinsamen Tagung von polnischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlern, die den Bestanden der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, die in der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek aufbewahrt werden, gewidmet wurde.

This book explores the fear management in Stalinist Poland. The main concept is interpreted as a top-down manipulation with media information referring to propaganda figures of 'German threat', 'American capitalist' or 'war provoker'. Using the methodology of history of emotions, the author examines social reception of the fear management policy.

Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the "invisible hand of the market" as a panacea for underdevelopment.

This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history as well as to legitimation of power and creation of social trust with the use of propaganda. It focuses on the contemporary history of Eastern Europe.

Dieses Buch versammelt Artikel, die in ihrer Ursprungsversion auf einer internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz vorgestellt wurden, die vom Institut für Polnische Philologie der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Posen sowie vom Institut für Slavistik der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in Posen organisiert wurde. Der Konferenzband trägt der Vielfältigkeit des deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeflechts Rechnung und vereint literaturwissenschaftliche, sprachwissenschaftliche und historische Beiträge. Unter den Autorinnen und Autoren sind Polonisten, Germanisten, Slawisten, Historiker sowie ein Vertreter aus der Philosophie.

Using different methods and representing various academic disciplines, the authors of this anthology analyse Polish memory of the Nazi and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish collective identity. The book presents the shape and social conditions of this memory as well as the conflicts and dilemmas related to it.

A comparative study of the anti-Semitic excesses carried out by the local populations of Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas in the early months of German occupation. The work looks into the incidents, the perpetrators, the German authorities, and the role these incidents played in the early stage of the "final solution".

This first of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia deals with the time from 1750 to 1831. It traces the formation of the intelligentsia as a social class, stresses the importance of the birth of bureaucratic institutions and analyses the results of the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

The first comprehensive, non-biased history of psychohistory, a vanguard branch of historical scholarship that studies psychological dimension of the past using principles of psychoanalysis and psychology.

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of such factors as the weakness of cities, political dominance.

The book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism: the assimilation, national identity, self-liberation and the Jewish state. Zionism translated the idea of "Return to Zion" to philosophical and political goals. These issues are researched on the basis of the texts of Hess, Pinsker, Herzl and Nordau.

The book reflects on the functioning of the public space in the nineteenth-century city on the example of Warsaw. Delving into the everyday realities and the symptoms of modern political life in the streets and squares, the author describes the conditions of a properly functioning public space, including the impact of the political regime.

This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of World War II. It draws on four case studies: Kalkow-Godow, Michniow, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de memoire. The state also uses local histories to bolster its moral capital.

This collection of articles summarises results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations.

Takes as its point of departure an enthusiasm for Baltic Sea region history which appeared in some European countries after fall of Iron Curtain. This book features emphasis on relation between historical narratives and political debates, makes it an interesting contribution to Baltic Sea region studies, and Central European historical studies.

Die interdisziplinäre Studie zu den (Wieder-)Aufbauprojekten des Berliner und Posener Schlosses verdeutlicht die unterschiedlichen Intentionen von Erinnerungsimplantaten. Die Autoren untersuchen die historische und kunstgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Schlösser mit Blick auf den Verlauf der Entscheidungsprozesse und der begleitenden Pressedebatten sowie schließlich auf die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der Bauten. Während das Berliner Projekt sich unter weitgehender Ausblendung der politischen zumindest ansatzweise auf die kulturelle Tradition Preußens beruft und als ein wichtiges Image-Projekt Deutschlands fungiert, hat das Posener fast ausschließlich eine lokale und politische Dimension, die nur im Kontext der Konkurrenz polnischer Städte um nationale Bedeutung zu verstehen ist.

A monograph on the social history of meat in Poland under the Communist regime (1945-1989). The analysis includes, among other things, problems of meat demand and supply in post-war Poland, abuses in meat production and distribution, and the role of meat in the everyday life of Polish families.

This second of three parts of the History of the Polish Intelligentsia analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of Polish romanticism. The stress is put on the debates of the position of intelligentsia in the society, as well as on tensions between great romantic ideas and realities of everyday life.

Central Europe, 1914-1918. A broad vista of the lives of the inhabitants of the border zones between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. The ordinary man's struggle to survive against the background of political and military affairs during the First World War, and in the comparative European context.

This book is a comprehensive work on the covert operations of the Spanish secret services throughout the 18th century. It is the fruit of a thorough study of what is known today as the intelligence cycle. The Spain of the 18th century, despite its decline on the European scene, continued to be a geopolitical actor on a global scale.

The book discusses the Polish-Ukrainian conflict over Lviv. Both nations desired to strengthen their standing in a war-ravaged Europe. Fighting broke out in what had previously been a shared city, ending with a Polish victory. The book also describes the ethnic cleansing of Jews and the memories that still haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.

The book deals with the fate of Poles from Poznan, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania, who served in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army in France

The book is a compendium of the latest research findings in Eurasian space and central Europe at the turn of early Metal ages which fundamentally change the view on the prehistory of European community. Migrations played a key role in intercultural processes and resulted in arise of the Bronze Age civilization and the first Golden Age in Europe.

This book describes the tragedy of a border society that had no place inside the boundaries of a nation-state after 1945. The story takes place in Gdansk-Pomerania, which was a difficult homeland. The book presents the fate of Pomeranians and the residents of Gdansk who had to prove their national usefulness before they joined the post-war life.

This book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities in Poland and Ukraine, depopulated as result of ethnic cleansing and deportation. Based on more than 150 personal interviews, it describes a common fate of many post-war European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape.