Styl brillant we wczesnoromantycznej muzyce polskiej

Author(s): Agata Górska-Kołodziejska / Language(s): Polish

In the history of composition and performance an interesting and multiplot chapter of musical changes opens, together with development Romantic epoch. Then a different from the current concept of a piece of work is being born. The work, which reaching for various inspirations, is slowly turning away from classical, formal and melodic and harmonic formula and is heading for virtuosity. Musical findings of that period would not have been possible without specific trends and composing tendencies being pointed out in the early stage of the Romantic period. Among those a special place was reserved for brillant style. This technique joined formal elegance and beauty of Italian bel canto style with harmonic enriching and virtuosity, created on the basis of sentimentalism, became a bridge between Classicism and music 19th century.Trying to catch the essence and evolution of brillant style, nineteen cen-tury’s and contemporary researchers have been basing on analysis of great European composers, slightly neglecting this phenomenon within smaller e.g. national areas. Some Polish researchers, touching the issue, limited it only to a description of the problem, focusing just on one composer and they did not extend their study onto works of other Polish early Romantic musicians. Thus there is a gap around brillant style embracing heritage of tal-ented composers of the period of partitions, Warsaw Duchy and Polish Kingdom, who despite being remote from European music centre tried to follow its traces. Combining what was Polish and national with contemporary composing fashion, they created some interesting and worth analysing works, which are research material for the present thesis. A ‘blank page’ in the description of this piece of Polish music history makes one put questions: firstly, if and to what extend creation of local composers included some features oh widespread on the West trend for virtuosity interweaving with affectionate lirysm and secondly, how to perform and interpret works written by Polish creators according to rules of brillant style.The stimulus to undertake scientific consideration on ‘Polish’ brillant style was for the author only Chopin’s works. The studies on them initiated the process of searching for other but similar compositions by musicians creating just before or together with the great composer. These actions resulted in rediscovery of plenty oh interesting information about works by early Romantic composers, who have not been too famous so far. These mu-sicians, similarly to Western European ones, performed daring technical shows, joining them with melodious parts. In Polish works, following brillant style, we can observe domination of figuration, ornamentation and a principle of alterative use of deeply lyrical and exceptionally virtuoso moments. This combination revealed musical and professional mastery of a performer, which was particularly noticeable in piano, violin and chamber literature.The research of some compositions oh Warsaw composers mainly, al-lowed to describe the brillant style phenomenon, which has become the aim of the present thesis. A special place is here occupied by analysis of some works by Maria Szymanowska (Nocturn in B major), Ignacy Feliks Do-brzyński (Grand Trio in A op. 17) and Fryderyk Chopin (Fantasy on Polish Airs in A major op. 13), whose recorded on the enclosed record performance, is an integral part of the presented ‘description of a piece of art’.An attempt of doing a research and creating an in-depth description of the topic has determined the lay-out of the work. In the first chapter, the author made closer to a reader the phenomenon of the brillant style in historic and cognitive context. She has framed the epoch background, where based on the changing philosophy and new social structures, a profession of a virtuoso-composer was being born. This part of thesis was devoted to a description of oeuvre of leading European composers, who willingly and with great deter-mination created ‘brillant’ works. The author focused also on, resulting from composing fashion, problem of changes in, popular then, types of instrumen-tal miniatures and soloist concerts. She has also gave her account of Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s – the doyen of the brillant style – work, in which he framed formal, technical and esthetical guidelines of the presented style. In the first chapter she described all the collected information about the de-scribed stylistics, revealing some significant negligence in researches of Polish early Romantic brillant current.Based on earlier opinions and definitions, in the second chapter, a pic-ture of fashions and composing tendencies of the 19th cent. Polish music salon has been presented. Introducing political, cultural and social unique-ness of Poland of the turn of the 18th and 19th century, the author described composing experience of popular, among whom we may find Józef Elsner, Franciszek Lessel, Józef Deszczyński, Józef Krogulski, Antoni Kątski, a vio-linist – Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski. Next, analysing in detail some compositions, the author emphasised achievements of the most inter-esting (according to her) artists: Szymanowska, Dobrzyński and Chopin. The choice came from searching and comparing elements of brillant style in possibly various genres – from early miniatures through chamber forms up to concert pieces. Putting the works together allowed to show not only stylis-tic development from its modest use to ideal symbiosis of virtuosity and lyrical and sentimental motives opening the way for the mature Romantic period, but also to distinguish features which make Polish brillant style dif-ferent from European compositions. Probably as an effect of complex Polish political situation and coming with it need to kindle Polish national spirit, Polish music of this period is full of national and folk references.A detailed analysis of works by Szymanowska, Dobrzyński and Chopin allowed to notice how together with the development of the brillant style it came to quoting of native melodious expressions. Works by Szymanowska, which followed gentle salon character, show the beginnings of virtuoso stylis-tics, which strongly absorbed national elements only in Dobrzyński’s and then Chopin’s works. Of course, a crowning achievement of this tendency became the virtuoso Fantasy op. 13 by Fryderyk Chopin, which was to stay forever almost symbolic image of early Romantic composing fashions and a founda-tion stone of Romantic national schools. Presenting by the author almost unknown so far Grand Trio op. 17 by Dobrzyński, has become big contribu-tion to discovery of forgotten works by Polish composers. Its detailed analy-sis allowed to trace the way in which composers implemented brillant style to piano chamber compositions and made allusions to traditional national motives. In four-part composition by Dobrzyński’s even fragments use char-acter of popular Polish dances – mazur i krakowiak. The second chapter which is entirely devoted to Polish compositions unfolded a wide perspec-tive onto music of early Romantic Polish salons, which were dominated by piano brillant style and joined virtuosity and lyrism as well as quotations from national melodies. The last chapter made an attempt to answer the question how to interpret and perform Polish works in brillant stylistics. The author was searching for this in statements by Chopin himself and also in his stu-dents’ recollections. The conclusions were confronted with some remarks of another great Romantic virtuoso – Ferenc Liszt. Quoting opinions about ways and methods of playing of two so distinguished European representa-tives of virtuoso current allowed to have broader perspective on performance aspects of brillant stylistics. Seeking a way of, the closest to early Romantic epoch, interpretation of here described works, the author reached for the concept of intertextual interpretation by Mieczysław Tomaszewski and Irena Poniatowska’s point of view. These researchers claim that a piece of art is somehow a mirror of the times in which it was created. This conclusion makes one focus on early Romantic writers’ remarks, so that after analysis of all of the factors making up for the interpretation, such as beauty of the sound, phrasing or pedalisation, it was possible to quote in the summary a concluding opinion by Chopin himself: ‘The simplicity is the top. Having overcome all the difficulties, played thousands of notes, you come to charm-ing simplicity being the top of arts’ (Op. cit. J. Eigeldinger, Chopin in the eyes of his students, Cracow 2010, p. 80).Framing of the epoch, leaning over early Romantic developments of Polish music salons and meticulous research of some pieces by Szymanowska, Dobrzyński and Chopin, paying special attention to finding and defining elements of brillant stylistics, allowed the author to prove that in Poland at the turn of 18th and 19th century a virtuoso composing trend was developing. This trend was able to work out its own, innovative features compared with Western music. Taking into account time, subject and spatial scope of the work, based on critics of the sources, analysis of accessible heritage of mentioned above creators and pianistic experience of the most distinguished virtuoso-composers, the author proved the existence of a very interesting current and valuable Polish music literature of the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, which was wrongly forgotten for such a long time.

Roma-Gypsy Presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 15th-18th Century

Author(s): Lech Mróz / Language(s): English

This is an analysis of 166 original and previously unpublished documents dating from the very first mention of a Gypsy in 1401 up to the year 1765. These documents range from royal decrees thru lawsuits to entries in municipal records. Some were written in Polish but many are in Latin, German or Ruthenian. They tell the story of not only the Gypsies living in Poland, but also of those who now live in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.Though Poland has not traditionally had a large Roma population, the author leads the reader through an eventful history of a people living on the margins of contemporary Europe. The historic documents illustrate a marked contrast to present stereotypes and popular media images and shows how the position of Roma/Gypsies shifted gradually from respected, wealthy and partly settled citizens of the early modern times, towards criminalized vagrants of the 18th century. This is a careful interpretation and re-interpretation of documents pertaining to the Roma's past that will provide an enlightening historical perspective towards the re-evaluation and self-definition of the Romani people in contemporary Europe.

Hybrid Renaissance. Culture, Language, Architecture

Author(s): Peter Burke / Language(s): English

The movement we know as the Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of ideas and literary and visual conventions (the “Gothic”) with another system (the “Classical”). However, it has become increasingly obvious that Gothic and Classical coexisted for a long time, and also that they interacted, producing hybrid forms not only of thought, art, literature and especially architecture, but also of language, literature, music, philosophy, law and religion. As the Renaissance movement spread outside Italy, to other parts of Europe and also beyond, from Goa to Quito, different local traditions made their contribution to the mix. Given the interest in cultural hybridity long shown by Natalie Davis, this theme allows Burke to pay homage to the work of Davis as well as to explore what was for long a neglected theme in Renaissance studies.

Post-Communist Mafia State. The Case of Hungary

Author(s): Bálint Magyar / Language(s): English

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ‘organized over-world’, the ‘state employing mafia methods’ and the ’adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework.The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules.

Catalogul documentelor Țării Românești din Arhivele Naționale. Vol. IX, 1657-1659

Author(s): Mirela Comănescu,Laura Niculescu,Ileana Dincă / Language(s): Romanian

The IXth volume of the Catalog of Documents of Wallachia includes the summaries of a number of 847 acts concerning the years 1657-1659, of which 583 are originals (561 in Romanian, 18 in Slavonic, 3 in Hungarian and 1 in Greek) . As for the support of the documents used, of the 583 original documents, 24 are written on parchment, while the rest are written on paper. The documents are found in Romania, in the fonds and collections of the Directorate of Central Historical Archives and in the departmental archives of Bistriţa-Năsăud, Braşov, Dolj, Gorj, Prahova and Vâlcea. The collection also includes 4 microfilmed documents and a photocopy identified in the Foreign Archives. The working method was similar to that used for the previous volume. The documents included in this volume contain information that reflects the development of Wallachia in the middle of the 17th century, the end of the reign of Constantine Şerban, the reign of Mihnea the 3rd Radu and the beginning of the reign of Grigorie Ghica. The stories speak of different social categories, their relations and various economic activities: agriculture (the main occupation of the inhabitants of the country), apple growing, viticulture, livestock breeding, beekeeping, trade. We also find information on the functioning of feudal institutions: legal activity, military organization, taxation. There are also many documents that highlight the concern of the voivodes for granting different privileges to monasteries. The collection highlights many documents that highlight the economic and diplomatic ties of Wallachia with Transylvania (especially with Prince Gheorghe Rakóczi and the city of Braşov). It should be noted the continuation of the process of consolidation of the Rumanian writing in spite of Slavonic and the diffusion of this one. This is a reality demonstrated by the large number of acts issued in Wallachia, 14 written in Romanian, also written in chancelleries only by private persons. The book could also arouse the interest of specialists in the fields of the auxiliary sciences of history thanks to the sigillographic, genealogical details, to those preoccupied by the art of the miniature and the watermark, the diplomatic, the onomastic, the toponymy contained in the documents.

Studies in the Southeast European Energy Sector, 2007-2011

Author(s): Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu,Ioannis Michaletos,Vlad Popovici / Language(s): English

This study of the energy sector in SE Europe collects several important articles regarding developments in the investment, construction and projected pipelines and other projects, as well as the general energy policies of regional states and the EU. As such, the book is a useful modern history for what did - and didn't - happen on the SE European energy scene due to economic and geo-political realities.

Studies in Greek Security, 2006-2011

Author(s): Ioannis Michaletos,Chris Deliso / Language(s): English

This collection of analyses and interviews presents important trends and events in the realm of security affairs in Greece during the target period. It encompasses insider testimony on key events, as well as detailed comparative overviews of forces and other targeted material. It is a useful asset for readers with specific interest in the security, defense and intelligence sector in this key country.

The Vatican's Challenges in the Balkans: Bolstering the Catholic Church in 2015 and Beyond

Author(s): Matteo Albertini,Chris Deliso / Language(s): English

Combining extensive on-the-ground research, top-secret intelligence and interviews with media reports and official Church data, The Vatican's Challenges in the Balkans is the first comprehensive analysis of the Holy See's current relationships and activities in Balkan countries at the levels of state, church and outreach to local populations.

Muslim Land, Christian Labor. Transforming Ottoman Imperial Subjects into Bulgarian National Citizens, 1878–1939

Author(s): Anna M. Mirkova / Language(s): English

Focusing upon a region in Southern Bulgaria, a region that has been the crossroads between Europe and Asia for many centuries, this book describes how former Ottoman Empire Muslims were transformed into citizens of Balkan nation-states. This is a region marked by shifting borders, competing Turkish and Bulgarian sovereignties, rival nationalisms, and migration. Problems such as these were ultimately responsible for the disintegration of the dynastic empires into nation-states. Land that had traditionally belonged to Muslims—individually or communally—became a symbolic and material resource for Bulgarian state building and was the terrain upon which rival Bulgarian and Turkish nationalisms developed in the wake of the dissolution of the late Ottoman Empire and the birth of early republican Turkey and the introduction of capitalism.By the outbreak of World War II, Turkish Muslims had become a polarized national minority. Their conflicting efforts to adapt to post-Ottoman Bulgaria brought attention to the increasingly limited availability of citizenship rights, not only to Turkish Muslims, but to Bulgarian Christians as well.

OPŠIRNI POPIS TIMARA MUSTAHFIZA U TVRĐAVAMA KLIŠKOG SANDŽAKA IZ 1550. GODINE

Author(s): Fazileta Hafizović / Language(s): Bosnian

Kliška tvrđava nalazi se u mjestu Klis, u okolici Splita. Klis su svojedobno naseljavali Iliri, a vremenom će Kliška tvrđava postati jednom od najznačajnijih utvrda hrvatskih krajeva. Ovladavanje Kliškom tvrđavom, zbog njezina iznimnog strateškog značaja, uvijek je predstavljalo izazov za različite osvajače. Izuzetak nisu bile ni snage Osmanske imperije koje su 1537. godine osvojile tvrđavu, a Klis učinile sjedištem Kliškog sandžaka. Grad Klis i Kliška tvrđava ostat će u rukama osmanskih Turaka do 1648. godine, kada u toku Kandijskog rata, grad zaposjedaju Mlečani. Kliški sandžak, jedna od upravnih jedinica Bosanskog ejaleta, osnovan 1537. godine, zauzimao je dosta značajnu površinu. Većim dijelom se nalazio na teritoriji zapadne Bosne, dostižući jednim svojim krakom gotovo centar Bosne. Dalje prema zapadu zauzimao je prostrane teritorije u Dalmaciji, izlazeći na više lokacija i na samu morsku obalu. Naziv je dobio po nepristupačnoj utvrdi Klis, koja se nalazi u zaleđu Splita, na izrazitom uzvišenju iznad bogatog Solinskog polja. Držanje ove tvrđave u svojoj vlasti pokazivalo je stratešku premoć strane u čijim je rukama i omogućavalo joj je kontrolu širokog područja puteva od srednjeg Jadrana ka unutrašnjosti Osmanskog carstva. Stoga je, kao simbol osmanske vojne nadmoćnosti, Klis bio proglašen zvaničnim sjedištem novoosnovanog sandžaka.Knjiga koja je pred vama prevod je i obrada zvaničnog osmanskog deftera – opširnog popisa mustahfiza Kliškog sandžaka iz 1550. godine na osnovu osmanskog izvornika pohranjenog u Arhivu Predsjedništva vlade u Istanbulu, a čija kopija se nalazi u zbirci Orijentalnog instituta u Sarajevu. Osim podataka o mustahfizima i njihovim timarima, defter sadrži i korisne informacije o stanovništvu koje je naseljavalo te timare, a koji su se nalazili u brojnim gradovima, selima i naseljima diljem Kliškog sandžaka. Zahvaljujući tome, on predstavlja i izvor značajnih podataka za proučavanje razvoja pojedinih naselja, kao i funkcioniranja izvršne i sudske vlasti na tim područjima. Nadajući se kako će objavljivanje ovog djela biti od koristi za ovdašnju akademsku zajednicu i omogućiti bolji uvid u neke historijske činjenice iz predmetnog perioda, iskazujemo svoju zahvalnost prije svega autorici, dr. Fazileti Hafizović, ali i Orijentalnom institutu – njezinoj matičnoj kući, kao i rukovodstvu instituta na čelu sa uvaženom dr. Behijom Zlatar koja se saglasila s objavljivanjem ovoga djela u izdanju Naučnoistraživačkog instituta „Ibn Sina“. Temeljni naum i cilj našega Instituta jest doprinositi kulturnom i znanstveno-intelektualnom boljitku društva i zemlje u kojoj djelujemo. Bit će nam drago ako nam ovaj čin bude „upisan“ u djela kojima služimo bh. kulturnoj i akademskoj javnosti pomažući znanstvenim istraživačima, ali i svim znatiželjnicima koji uvidom u kulturnu i političku prošlost i povijest ovih prostora nastoje bolje i sadržajnije razumijeti i obogatiti svoju sadašnjost.

Quest for a Suitable Past. Myths and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Documente Diplomatice Române (1 iulie - 31 decembrie 1936)

Author(s): Laurenţiu Constantiniu,Alin-Victor Matei,Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Documente Diplomatice Române (1883)

Author(s): Alin Ciupală,Rudolf Dinu,Lukacs Antal / Language(s): Romanian,French

Amintiri diplomatice: Constantinopol (1902-1906), Viena (1906-1908). Alexandru Em. Lahovary

Author(s): Adrian Stănescu,Laurențiu Vlad / Language(s): English,Romanian,French

From Central Planning to the Market. The Transformation of the Czech Economy, 1989–2004

Author(s): Libor Žídek / Language(s): English

This book describes the process of the Czech economic transformation from the beginning of the 1990s to the country’s entry into the European Union in 2004. This transformation is divided into four periods: an initial recession caused by the transformation; economic growth in the mid-1990s; a recession connected to the currency crisis of 1997; and recovery and growth from 1999 until 2004, when the analysis ends. The examination covers the main aspects of the transformation—an overall view of the process, political transition, economic policy, economic results (GDP development, infl ation, unemployment), changes in outside indicators (balance of payments), privatization, transformation of the fi nancial sector, and changes in the business sector and institutional development.The book also compares Czech development in this transformative era to those of Poland and Hungary. As in Hungary and Poland, the Czech Republic underwent an exceptional qualitative shift from a system centrally planned to one that was market-based. The book concludes that despite mistakes and hardships, the overall transformation process in Central Europe has been successful.

Dżuma w Toruniu w trakcie III wojny północnej

Author(s): Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska / Language(s): Polish

The book attempts to depict the plague in the city of Toruń (Royal Prussia) in years 1708–1711 in its entirety, and accordingly analyses the epidemic as an event which “permeates all the people of a society.” The author argues, that the plague in early modern Toruń was a total social fact and had numerous implications throughout local society, in the economic, juridical, cultural, aesthetic, political, and religious spheres, weaving together diverse strands of social and psychological life.The book consists of two main parts. The first part is descriptive and serves as a chronicle of the destructive plague that broke out in the city in 1708; it traces the ebb and flow of epidemic. Among others, the author discusses the circulation of information between collective and individual actors, and numerous activities of a magistrate of Toruń intending to control the arrival and spread of the disease and to mitigate its negative effects. Also, the mechanisms and processes of normalisation of social and individual life after the catastrophe are presented, together with the persistence of an indelible mark engraved by the disease in the collective memory of city dwellers. The first part of the book conclusively shows that the plague in Toruń in 1708–1711 permeated all spheres of social and individual life in the local community.The second, analytical part of the monograph consists of four chapters. In the first chapter, the author discusses religiosity in plague-stricken Toruń. She analyzes one of the local plague sermons from the sociological perspective to show that during the plague outbreaks religious, medical and social orders were contentiously overlapping. The sermon Christlicher Patient delivered in 1708 by Ephraim Praetorius, a devout Lutheran, was re-defining a habitual condition of a good Christian during the catastrophe and thus it was helping to guide future actions and behaviours of city dwellers simultaneously disposing them to think in a certain way about both their life and death and about charity and Christian love of neighbour. The second chapter presents the history of local plague hospitals as a complex component of urban responses to recurring epidemics. First and foremost it explains how the local lazaretto in Toruń functioned, how it was subsidized, where was it situated, who (and why) worked there, and what it was like to stay (voluntary and enforced) and die there. It also explains how the local plague fighting system was organized in the 17th and 18th centuries and how it was supported by private individuals and city offices. Consequently, the author argues that Lutheran and Catholic self-help together with new patterns of self-organisation were fundamental for specific forms of social solidarity tempore pestis. The third chapter discusses the burial of plague dead and analyzes demographic effects of the epidemic on size and composition of the city population. Among others, it specifies locations of the plague pits and plague cemeteries in Toruń in 1708–1711. It also estimates plague mortality and introduces Jacques Dupâquier’s method to detect demographic crises in the years 1700-1715 on the basis of the temporal distribution of deaths in all city parishes. The last, fourth chapter discusses an early modern phenomenon of timor pestis (fear of plague) and its components. The author argues that in the early modern period the complex notion of natural and supernatural fear was one of the most important elements of the multifaceted understanding of “pestilence” and how it spread. The numerous examples of timor pestis management taken from both ego-documents and administrative source are cited here.In the Annex to this book, editions of selected primary historical sources referring to plagues in early modern Toruń can be found.

GOSPODARKA WOJENNA W KRÓLESTWIE POLSKIM w latach 1914–1918

Author(s): Edward Kołodziej / Language(s): Polish

W wyniku działań wojennych prowadzonych w latach 1914-1915 na terenie Królestwa Polskiego i Galicji przemysł i rolnictwo poniosły znaczne straty. W 1915 roku wywieziono do Rosji wyposażenie wielu zakładów przemysłowych. Ewakuujące się oddziały rosyjskie niszczyły drogi i infrastrukturę kolejową. Wcześniej, w październiku 1914 roku, duże zniszczenia w Królestwie spowodowały wycofujące się z guberni zachodnich wojska niemieckie. Dobrowolna i przymusowa ewakuacja ludności cywilnej do Rosji objęła ok. 1 mln osób. Spośród 1,1 mln oficerów i żołnierzy zmobilizowanych na terenie Królestwa Polskiego do wojska carskiego większość także znalazła się w Rosji.Zniszczenia w pierwszym roku wojny i wojenna gospodarka państw centralnych w Królestwie Polskim spowodowały, że w 1918 roku odłogiem leżało 4,5 mln ha ziemi uprawnej, a straty żywego inwentarza sięgały od 37 do 60%. Straty przemysłu polskiego tylko w 4% wynikały z działań wojennych; ogromną ich większość spowodowały działania wojskowych i cywilnych administracji: niemieckiej - 56%, austro-węgierskiej - 22% i rosyjskiej - 18%.W związku z setną rocznicą Wielkiej Wojny (1914-1918) zainteresowanie badaczy jej dziejami przeżywa renesans. W Europie i świecie ukazuje się wiele opracowań, monografii i artykułów, głównie dotyczących kwestii wojskowych i politycznych I wojny światowej. Historycy pomijają natomiast zagadnienia natury gospodarczej. Podobnie jest w Polsce. Brak zainteresowania problematyką ekonomiczną nasi historycy tłumaczyli niedostateczną ilością źródeł, głównie archiwaliów, zniszczonych podczas pierwszej i drugiej wojny światowej. Autor recenzowanej książki udowodnił jednak, że wiele źródeł na tematy gospodarcze czasów Wielkiej Wojny zachowało się, chociaż ich odnalezienie wymagało dużego nakładu pracy.Z recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Janusza SzczepańskiegoEdward Kołodziej (ur. 1940) - historyk i archiwista, absolwent Wydziału Historycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, wieloletni pracownik Archiwum Akt Nowych w Warszawie. W latach 1999-2010 wykładowca w Instytucie Historii Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, gdzie uzyskał tytuł profesora zwyczajnego. Jego zainteresowania badawcze obejmują głównie historię okresu międzywojennego, zwłaszcza zagadnienia ruchu zawodowego, migracji ludności, dziejów Polonii, działalności polskiej służby dyplomatycznej i konsularnej oraz historię gospodarczą. Autor i redaktor naukowy ponad 250 publikacji naukowych. W 2017 roku w Wydawnictwie Naukowym Scholar ukazała się jego książka Polska i inne państwa wobec problemów reparacji i długów zagranicznych w latach 1918-1939.

INSTYTUT NAUKOWO-BADAWCZY EUROPY WSCHODNIEJ ORAZ SZKOŁA NAUK POLITYCZNYCH W WILNIE (1930–1939)

Author(s): Henryka Ilgiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Prezentowana praca poświęcona jest działalności dwóch ważnych instytucji naukowych funkcjonujących w Wilnie w okresie międzywojennym. Autorka starała się dotrzeć do wszelkich zespołów archiwalnych, odnośnie do których podejrzewała, że mogą zawierać informacje dotyczące podjętego tematu. (…) Wyjątkowo cenne są ustalenia związane z działalnością wydawniczą Instytutu Naukowo-Badawczego w Wilnie, autorka bowiem nie tylko omówiła zawartość artykułów i rozpraw zamieszczanych w odrębnych wydawnictwach, lecz także poddała analizie wszystkie samodzielne publikacje książkowe pracowników naukowych związanych z Instytutem. (…)Książka Henryki Ilgiewicz z jednej strony uzupełnia lukę w historiografii dotyczącą dziejów polskiego życia naukowego w międzywojennym Wilnie, z drugiej zaś może inspirować badaczy do podejmowania wątków biograficznych osób związanych z tytułowymi instytucjami. z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Wiesława CabanaHenryka Ilgiewicz – polska historyk urodzona i mieszkająca na Litwie, stopień doktora i doktora habilitowanego otrzymała w Instytucie Historii Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Obecnie pracuje w Instytucie Badań Kultury Litwy w Wilnie na stanowisku starszego pracownika naukowego. Jest członkiem Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Naukowców Polaków Litwy i Polskiego Towarzystwa Naukowego na Obczyźnie. Główne kierunki prowadzonych przez nią badań to wileńskie towarzystwa i instytucje naukowe oraz ochrona dziedzictwa narodowego w Wilnie XIX–XX wieku, a także dzieje Polaków na Litwie. Jest autorką m.in.: Wileńskie towarzystwa i instytucje naukowe w XIX wieku (Toruń 2005); Societates Academicae Vilnenses: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Wilnie (1907–1939) i jego poprzednicy (Warszawa 2008) i Biblioteka Państwowa im. Eustachego i Emilii Wróblewskich w Wilnie (1912–1939) oraz towarzystwa ją popierające (Toruń 2015).

POLITYKA SPORTOWA ZWIĄZKU RADZIECKIEGO I FEDERACJI ROSYJSKIEJ

Author(s): Artur Podleśny / Language(s): Polish

Książka jest próbą prześledzenia dziejów sportu w Związku Radzieckim i Federacji Rosyjskiej oraz wymienienia, opisania i przeanalizowania najważniejszych uwarunkowań, cech oraz zadań stawianych przed sportem przez władze w danym okresie historycznym. Autor skupia się zwłaszcza na polityce sportowej oraz jej funkcji w polityce wewnętrznej i zewnętrznej państwa. Wskazuje m.in., że niekwestionowana potęga sportowa ZSRR nie przetrwała upadku tego państwa, a sytuacja sportu we współczesnej Rosji poprawiła się dopiero po objęciu władzy przez Władimira Putina. Niemniej jednak obecnemu wzrostowi nakładów na sport i organizowaniu wielkich imprez sportowych w latach 2014 i 2018 towarzyszy też afera dopingowa rzucająca cień na osiągnięcia rosyjskich sportowców.Artur Podleśny – absolwent prawa na Wydziale Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz stosunków międzynarodowych na Wydziale Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Obecnie doktorant na kierunku nauki o bezpieczeństwie na Wydziale Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Do jego głównych zainteresowań badawczych należą sport w stosunkach międzynarodowych, siły zbrojne Federacji Rosyjskiej oraz zorganizowana przestępczość w krajach byłego ZSRR.

Hidegháború és európai integráció

Author(s): Barnabás Vajda / Language(s): Hungarian