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Not So Dark! The Central Committee’s Culture Department on the Certain Reprezentation of Daily Life
No full textThe author demonstrates that literature can be an important historical source. On the basis of an analysis of the content, reception (mainly by the official censorship), and fate of the Student Satire Theater’s play It’s Not All the Same to Me the author outlines the characteristic features of Polish daily existence in the 1960s
Nie taka czarna! Wydział Kultury KC o pewnym przedstawieniu codzienności
No full textThe author demonstrates that literature can be an important historical source. On the basis of an analysis of the content, reception (mainly by the official censorship), and fate of the Student Satire Theater’s play It’s Not All the Same to Me the author outlines the characteristic features of Polish daily existence in the 1960s
How to Tackle Daily Life?
No full textStarting from the statement that self-reflection is necessary for the development of any scientific discipline, the author of this article – a historian and sociologist – considers the characteristics of research on everyday life. What is the subject of this subdiscipline and when did such research start? What methods does it use? The author reflects on these issues, while referring to his own experience as a historian and to the book by Bogumiła Mateja-Jaworska and Marta Zawodna-Stephan, Badania życia codziennego. Rozmowy (nie)codzienne w Polsce (2019) [Studies of Everyday Life: (Not) Everyday Conversations in Poland], in which the statements of contemporary everyday researchers are quoted. The author concludes that the beginnings of such research should be sought in the very distant past and that its material might be provided by all the creations of human culture. He also wonders if and how evidence of the modern digital age will survive
Jak ugryźć codzienność?
No full textStarting from the statement that self-reflection is necessary for the development of any scientific discipline, the author of this article – a historian and sociologist – considers the characteristics of research on everyday life. What is the subject of this subdiscipline and when did such research start? What methods does it use? The author reflects on these issues, while referring to his own experience as a historian and to the book by Bogumiła Mateja-Jaworska and Marta Zawodna-Stephan, Badania życia codziennego. Rozmowy (nie)codzienne w Polsce (2019) [Studies of Everyday Life: (Not) Everyday Conversations in Poland], in which the statements of contemporary everyday researchers are quoted. The author concludes that the beginnings of such research should be sought in the very distant past and that its material might be provided by all the creations of human culture. He also wonders if and how evidence of the modern digital age will survive
Czy komunizm tkwił w nas? Rozumowane wspomnienia historyka o dawnym zakładzie pracy
No full textThe author analyses the problem of soaking up, or internalising, communism in the times of the Peoples’ Republic of Poland (PRL) and claims that it constitutes a fascinating, though difficult, field of research. In order to impose some limits on the problem and make its analysis feasible, he uses his memories from his former workplace from the communist times, as a starting point for a study of manifestations of communism in everyday life. Paraphrasing the language of communist propaganda, the author analyses the title question in terms of mutual influences of “the base” (i.e. The History Institute and its institutional surroundings) and “the superstructure” (i.e. the faculty, and life histories of some of its members). He asks what was the influence of the milieu on the quality and scope of research conducted in the Institute. While the author asserts that communism was undoubtedly wrong, he also maintains that presenting a uniformly bleak view of the period makes it impossible to conduct rational analysis. For example, it makes it difficult to make sense of the last days of the regime, the birth of opposition, or the fact that the establishment was gradually giving way and losing ground. The author claims that, in spite of all their faults, the final appraisal of the activity of Polish historians is not unanimously negative. Their activity constituted a part in the historical processes unfolding around them, being at the same time one of its causes and its effect
Presenting Reality is Part of It and Vice Versa
No full textThis essay contains reflections on the problems of discourse that appear in analyzing written historical sources. The author refers to Krzysztof Gajewski’s book, Reprezentacje komunizmu. PRL z perspektywy badań literackich i kulturowych [The Representation of Communism: The PPR from the Perspective of Literary and Cultural Studies] (2018). The primary findings concern the necessity of taking into account the linguistic framework of the given era
Dom, którego nie ma. Powroty ocalałych z Zagłady do miasta średniej wielkości w Polsce (1945-1950)
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Przedstawianie rzeczywistości jest jej częścią i odwrotnie: Krzysztof Gajewski, Reprezentacje komunizmu. PRL z perspektywy badań literackich i kulturowych
No full textThis essay contains reflections on the problems of discourse that appear in analyzing written historical sources. The author refers to Krzysztof Gajewski’s book, Reprezentacje komunizmu. PRL z perspektywy badań literackich i kulturowych [The Representation of Communism: The PPR from the Perspective of Literary and Cultural Studies] (2018). The primary findings concern the necessity of taking into account the linguistic framework of the given era
A Man Can’t Be Shaped at One’s Wish
No full textThe Author comments on a new book by Mariusz Mazur O człowieku tendencyjnym... — a book on the communist endeavour to create a new man. He considers the book excellent. Its important positive point is the analysis of the theme in a large framework of human history. Communism was a very singular regime but the idea of a new man appeared several times through centirues and in different countries
The Dancing Rebels
No full textThe Author discusses Anna Idzikowska-Czubaj 's study Cultural and Historical Significance of Rockand Roll in Poland". Rock and roll had immense importance in the contemporary history of Poland. It constituted one of the few fields of relatively free expression of the youth under communist mass culture. On the other hand it is true that communists tried to use it to canalize a potential revolt of young people
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