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- Year of publication: 2013
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- Pages: 3-6
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Biography as a subject and result of psychosocial research
Biographies are one of the earliest literary forms, bringing together informative, academic, documentary and didactic functions. For ages the most famous of them have been presenting lives of celebrated and holy men to give example and shape deserved personality traits of the whole generations of readers. The times changed but biographies still form a separate genre and carry on to popularise certain manners. Various scientific disciplines took a keen interest in them due to their specific content. By social and humanistic sciences biography studies is treated as a subdiscipline defining important and original research trends. This article presents biographies as a subject and result of academic research.
Problems in writing biographies of the military
This article analyses problems to deal with when writing biographies of prominent figures from armed forces. Starting with a statement that military sources are very specific and taking into account their relatively unified origin (all are created by the military) and topic (all issues related to armed forces) an essential division should be introduced at the very beginning. Military sources can be divided into (A) peaceful time sources and (B) conflict time sources (armed forces at their active stage during wars, preparations to war, riots, etc.). The article suggests some methods and sources for writing military biographies and also points out the necessity to include the motives guiding particular actions, i.e. why those people chose to act that way though other ways were, or seemed to be, open. The author also emphasises the necessity to employ methods from personality psychology.
Eugeniusz Romer’s efforts to rebuild Poland and shape safe borders
This article presents Eugeniusz Romer (1871–1954), a great humanist and patriot, world-famous scientist, one of the most prominent Polish geographers of the first part of the 20th century, a founder of modern Polish cartography, author of many maps and atlases, and an outstanding climatologist and glaciologist. He was also interested in hydrography, geomorphology, regional and economic geography and the influence of geographic phenomena on social and economic life, and was the first scientist to point at a link between geography and politics, and Poland’s geopolitical location and her relations with neighbours. Since his early years he had been very active politically and socially. He lived in the middle of great social and political transformations, wars and revolutions, shaping Poles social and national awareness, Polish independence fight, battles for territories and the future nature of Poland – in all those events he also took an active part.
Leon Reich (1879–1929): a profile of Zionists’ leader in eastern Galicia
The article presents a profile of Leon Reich (1979–1929), one of the leaders of Zionists movement in Polish territories. Scientific literature has not taken any deeper interest in him so far. Here he is presented against the nationality background and social and political life in Galicia in his multicultural hometown Drohobych in Eastern Europe, and as a leader of Jewish youth during his studies at the University of Lviv. As a well-educated doctor of laws he conducted his own research and attempted to define a modern nation. He was an active member and participant of world congresses of Zionist Organisation. When Poland gained independence he was in favour of granting autonomy to the Jewish population in eastern Malopolska. He attempted to revive Zionist movement in Poland and was categorically against assimilating Jews. As a member of Polish parliament (1922–1930) he headed a Jewish parliamentary group. He resigned from this function after the Polish-Jewish agreement with Wladysław Grabski’s government had failed. After Reich’s death his family moved to Jerusalem fulfilling his last will.
Leon Tomasz Reutt (1884–1939) – a Study for a Portrait of Drohobych Mayor
The article presents a profile of Leon Reutt, an engineer whose political and social activity was focused on Drohobych. He came from a Polish patriotic background and was a member of a “breakthrough” generation which had an opportunity to combine tradition and actual work. Active in academic organisations in Lviv, he was also involved in promoting education among Poles in eastern Galicia. After graduating he became a road engineer and took active part in public life in Drohobycz as its mayor. His greatest achievements included creating a water supply system and carrying out works on improving city’s infrastructure, which included installing telephones, conducting road repairs, and developing gas supply system. The advance of his carrier was blocked by an illness. He was not among the most famous people in the Second Polish Republic, but his contribution to the local government’s activity should not be forgotten. The paths of his personal careers also indicate his political entanglements and difficult choices. Active as his was inside the broadly understood national movement; he then made a U-turn and, as many like him, joined the government supporters after the 1926 May Coup.
Akademik: a periodical and a group (1945–1947) – a contribution to the history of an independent student movement after the 2nd World War
This article discusses the short history of a group of university students gathered around a Warsaw periodical Akademik, published from 1945 to 1947 as a mouthpiece of Towarzystwo Bratnich Pomocy. The article analyses periodical’s content and provides a general picture of this group. Akademik’s editorial team and its fellows and publicists were members of different youth organisations (including political ones), such as Academic Association of Young Fighters (AZWM „Zycie”), ZNOS, OKSMW “Wici”, Democratic Youth Association (ZMD), Bratnie Pomoce, Academic Section of Former Political Prisoners (Sekcja Akademicka Bylych Wiezniow Politycznych) and Academic Sports Association (AZS). Akademik commented on various topics, such as life at the academia and students’ accommodation, but it also featured polemic articles on ideology and politics. Around a year before the last issue was published a group of students left the editorial team and began to work with Stronnictwo Pracy.
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