Historiografia PRL w antropologicznej perspektywie badań historiograficzno-metodologicznych
The Historiography of the People’s Republic of Poland in an Anthropological Perspective of Historical-Methodological Studies

Summary/Abstract: Similarly to contemporary Polish historiography, its post-war predecessor – usually described as the historiography of the People’s Republic of Poland – was just as variegated. Noticing this variety calls for an approach that will not only make it possible to perceive this feature but, primarily, to evaluate it positively by treating it as “natural” within the range of scientific praxis. It is exactly the absence of the possibility of such a treatment of differences within the universally accepted perspective of research that makes it impossible to disclose its great variety. The consequence assumes the form not only of an inferior image of the historiography of the Peoples’ Poland period but also a restriction of comprehending the research praxis of the historians of that time. More, it makes it difficult to ponder such historiography and to discover an answer to the question: what was the historiography of People’s Poland like, and what should be our attitude towards it? The titular anthropological perspective of historiography – methodological research, which treats distinctness within scientific thought as its “natural” state, opens up a totally different path towards studying and understanding the historiography of the People’s Poland era. Here, the objective is to reach the historiosophic-methodological differences of such historiography, to follow its variety by means of a “thick description” and to formulate diagnoses pertaining to the cultural frames of cognition.

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