- Author:
Rafał Stobiecki
- E-mail:
rafalsto@uni.lodz.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Łódzki
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1458-1657
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
298-314
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/hso210312
- PDF:
hso/30/hso3012.pdf
- License:
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative
Commons Attribution license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Marxism versus Other Strands in Polish Post-War Historiography
This paper aims to present the methodological face of Polish historiography after World War II. In the centre of the Author’s interest is Marxism and its role in historians’ research practice. The article briefly mentions other methodological trends present in Polish historiography after 1956 (Annales school, individualistic historicism).
- Author:
Bartłomiej Kapica
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-9908
- Year of publication:
2022
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
27-51
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2022.02
- PDF:
pbs/10/pbs1002.pdf
Władysław Bieńkowski and his ideas in the interwar period
The paper describes the ideological evolution of Władysław Bieńkowski (1906–1991) in the interwar period – in the Polish People’s Republic, he was first a communist activist and then a dissident. The author reconstructs the process of radicalization of Bieńkowski as an intellectual who was not a member of the Communist Party of Poland, but who after the Second World War found himself among higher-ranking communist activists. The thesis of this paper is that the dichotomy between individual freedom and participation in the communist movement, which was characteristic of Bieńkowski in the period of the Polish People’s Republic, dates back to his prewar ideas. The paper also contributes to the discussion on the attitudes of the Polish intelligentsia towards communism.
