Historia mówiona w polskich badaniach dziejów najnowszych
Oral history in Polish studies of recent history

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the methodological specificity of Polish research of recent history, using historical witnesses as a source. The three featured environments, defined by the metaphor of the „generation” classical, modernist and oral historians – were used to show the achievements of Polish research, whose immanent features are discontinuity, parallelism and a different type of transfer between theory and research practice. The methodological directives are the starting point in each case, formulated in the historians’ environment and an indication of the extent to which they influenced the historian’s research.

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