The History of Poland is the History of Europe is a competition for all students of European universities.
Make a Polish Day at your university and come to Poland for a historic seminar!
Who may participate?
Every European student, but not a Polish citizen. Alone or in a group of maximum 4 people.
What and when?
You have to make a Polish Day from 16th October to 16th November in a form of:
- a monographic lecture
- an open lecture
- a one-day conference
- a multimedia presentation
Send us a report about it (including a date and a place of the event, a topic and a short description of it as well as a list of participants) till 20th November. Then a special commission will choose the best events and invite 30 people to come to Lodz.
You may choose a topic yourself or use one of our proposals below.
Historic seminar in Poland:
Date:
6th-10th Dec 2006
Place:
Lodz, Poland
Programme:
- Solidarity movement and its importance in defending communism
- Litzmannstadt Getto
- historic tour of Lodz
- one-day visit to Warsaw (The Warsaw Rising Museum)
TOPIC PROPOSALS
1. The revival of Polish statehood – regaining the independence in 1918.
a) Halecki, O., A History of Poland, Dent, London 1961.
b) Roshwald, Aviel, Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-1923, Routledge, 2001.
c) Davies Norman, Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present, Oxford University Press, 2001.
d) Norman Davies, God's Playground. Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Columbia University Press. 1982.
e) Zamoyski Adam, The Polish Way, John Murray 1988.
f) Peter D. Stachura, editor. Poland between the Wars, 1918–1939. New York: St. Martin's. 1998.
g) Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
h) poloniatoday.com/history10.htm
i) polandpoland.com/treaty_versailles.html
j) stampdomain.com/country/poland/poland1918/
k) googobits.com/articles/p2-2045-a-history-lovers-guide-to-warsaw.html
l) kasprzyk.demon.co.uk/www/Revolution.html
m) web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557/lect11.htm
2. Józef Piłsudski – a hero or a dictator?
a) Aviel Roshwald, Richard Stites, European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
b) Roshwald, Aviel, Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-1923, Routledge, 2001.
c) Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, Elisabeth Glaser, The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
d) Bończa Stanisław J., Joseph Pilsudski, founder of Polish national independence and Chief of the polish State, London, Edinburgh: S. Low, Morston, 1921.
e) Halecki, O., A History of Poland, Dent, London 1961.
f) Jedrzejewicz, W., Pilsudski, A Life for Poland, Hippocrene 1982.
g) Machray, Robert, The Poland of Pilsudski, 1914 - 1936, Allen & Unwin, London 1936.
h) Reddaway, W. F., Marshal Pilsudski, London 1938.
i) Norman Davies, God's Playground. Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Columbia University Press. 1982.
j) poland.gov.pl/Jozef,Pilsudski,(1867-1935),1972.html
k) polonica.net/Marshal-Jozef-Pilsudski.htm
l) web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557/lect11.htm
m) derela.republika.pl/marszal.htm
n) pilsudski.org/English/Institute/Welcome.htm
3. The Polish underground state during WW II.
a) Karski Jan, Story of a Secret State, Boston, 1944.
b) Halecki, O., A History of Poland, Dent, London 1961.
c) Prazmowska, A., A History of Poland , Palgrave 2004.
d) Zamoyski, Adam, The Polish Way , John Murray 1988.
e) Cooper, L., In the shadow of the Polish Eagle: The Poles, the Holocaust and Beyond, Palgrave 2000.
f) Klukowski, Zygmunt, Diary From the Years of Occupation, 1939 - 44, Illinois Press,1993.
g) Korbonski, S., Fighting Warsaw: The Story of the Polish Underground State, 1939 - 1945, London.
h) warsawuprising.com/state.htm
i) polishresistance-ak.org/2%20Article.htm
j) ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p504_Okeefe.html
k) citinet.net/ak/polska_42.html
l) republika.pl/unpack/1/dok01a.html
m) Ney-Krwawicz M., The Polish Home Army 1939-1945, London, 2001.
4. The Warsaw Rising and controversies about its political assessment.
a) Davis Norman, RISING '44. THE BATTLE FOR WARSAW, Houndmills, MacMillan, 2003.
b) Ciechanowski Jan M., The Warsaw Rising of 1944, Cambridge, University Press, 1974.
c) Borowiec Andrew, Destroy Warsaw!, Hitler’s Punishment, Stalin’s Revenge, Westport, London, Praeger publishers, 2001.
d) Peszke Michael Alfred, Battle for Warsaw 1939-1944, Boulder, east European Monographs, 1995.
e) polonianews.com/warsaw44/index.html
f) 1944.pl/index.php?lang=en&lang_time=1
g) warsawuprising.com/paper/chodakiewicz1.htm
h) info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/history/WWII/powstanie/link.shtml
i) polandinexile.com/rising.htm
5. June 1956 in Poznan.
a) Andy Blunden, Stalinism: Its Origins & Future, 1993, Volume II, Chapter 2, section 2.
b) Prazmowska, A., A History of Poland , Palgrave 2004.
c) Norman Davies, God's Playground. Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Columbia University Press. 1982.
d) Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, 50 years since the Poznan uprising
e) city.poznan.pl/mim/strony/czerwiec56/pages.html
f) socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9117
g) johndclare.net/cold_war_poland_1956.htm
h) polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=38480&j=2
i) info-poland.buffalo.edu/exhib/poznan/june56.html
j) internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1078
6. Democratic opposition 1945-1989.The rise of Solidarity – new political elites.
a) Michael D Kennedy, Professionals Power & Solidarity in Poland :A Critical Sociology of Soviet Type Society, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
b) Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, Yale University Press, 2002.
c) Eringer Robert, Strike for Freedom: The Story of Lech Walesa and Polish Solidarity. Dodd Mead, 1982.
d) Kenney Patrick, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989. Princeton University Press, 2003.
e) Osa Maryjane, Solidarity and Contention: Networks of Polish Opposition. University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
f) Ost, David, The Defeat Of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe, Cornell University Press, 2005.
g) Perdue, William D., Paradox of Change: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity in the New Poland. Praeger/Greenwood, 1995.
h) Goodwyn, Lawrence. Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland. New York: Oxfor d University Press, 1991.
i) Davies Norman, Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present, Oxford University Press, 2001.
j) Lech Walesa, The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography, Arcade, 1992.
k) Barker Colin, Festival of the oppressed. Solidarity, reform, and revolution in Poland 1980-81. London, Chicago: Bookmarks 1986.
l) solidarnosc.org.pl/eng1.htm
m) solidarity.gov.pl/
n) news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report
o) culture.polishsite.us/articles/art52.html
p) isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=136&issue=108
7. Lech Wałęsa – a fighter for freedom and solidarity.
a) Lech Walesa, The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography, Arcade, 1992.
b) Roger Boyes, The Naked President: A Political Life of Lech Walesa, Secker & Warburg, 1994.
c) Mary Craig, Lech Walesa and his Poland. Continuum, 1987.
d) Jaroslaw Kurski, Lech Walesa: Democrat or Dictator?, Westview Press, 1993.
e) Solidarity Friends, The Book of Lech Walesa: A Collective Portrait, Simon & Schuster1982.
f) Stefoff, Rebecca, Lech Walesa: The Road to Democracy, (Great Lives). Fawcett Books 1992.
g) Craig, Mary, Lech Walesa: The Leader of Solidarity and Campaigner for Freedom, Stevens Gareth Inc, 1990.
h) time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/walesa.html
i) ilw.org.pl/english/otfundr.html
j) nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1983/walesa-bio.html
k) ilw.org.pl/english/index1en.html
8. The influence of John Paul II and his pilgrimages on the democratic changes in Poland.
a) Weigel George, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, Oxford University Press, 1993.
b) Bernhard, Michael H. The Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
c) Stokes, Gale. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
d) Weigel, George 1951- "Catholicism and Democracy in the Age of John Paul II", Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture - Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 2001, pp. 36-64.
e) Tad Szulc, Pope John Paul II: The Biography, Scribner, 1995.
f) Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi,His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time, Doubleday, 1996.
g) Jonathan Kwitny, Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II, Henry Holt and Company, 1997.
h) vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/index.htm
i) popejohnpaul.com/
j) time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/popejohn.html
k) tcrnews2.com/humanrights.html
l) usmayors.org/uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/04_11_05/cochran.asp
m) stlouisreview.com/archive/youth.php?youthid=5491
n) zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7608
o) opendemocracy.net/xml/xhtml/articles/2782.html
p) fpri.org/ww/0106.200004.weigel.popehistory.html
q) religion-cults.com/pope/communism.htm
r) pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope/communism/
9. Round Table talks – the fall of communism in Poland.
a) Wiktor Osiatynski, The Round Table Negotiations in Poland (Working Paper Number 1, Center for Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, School of Law, University of Chicago. August 1981).
b) Michael Kennedy, "Contingencies and the Alternatives of 1989: Toward a Theory and Practice of Negotiating Revolution," a paper presented at the University of Warsaw, October 13, 1998.
c) George Sanford, Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics Since 1989, Palgrave Macmillan,2002.
d) Joni Lovenduski, Politics and society in Eastern Europe, Indiana University Press, 1987.
e) Jacek Kurczewski, The Resurrection of Rights in Poland, Oxford University Press, 1993.
f) George Sanford, Polish Communism in Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, 1983.
g) Marjorie Castle, Ray Taras, Democracy in Poland, Westview Press, 2002.
h) Revolution, and Peace Hoover Institution on War, Transition to Democracy in Poland, Palgrave Macmillan, 1993.
i) Hubert Tworzecki, Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland, Westview Pr, 1996.
j) Stephen White, Communism and its Collapse. Making of the Contemporary World, Routledge; 2001.
k) Zamoyski, Adam, The Polish Way , John Murray 1988.
l) Timothy Garton Ash, We the People. The Revolution of 89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin & Prague , Granta Books, Cambridge 1990.
m) Leszek Balcerowicz, 'Understanding Post-Communist Transitions', in: Leszek Balcerowicz, Socialism - Capitalism - Transformation , Central European University Press, Budapest 1995, pp.145-165.
n) gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB42/
o) countrystudies.us/poland/63.htm
p) umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol6no3/porter.htm
q) country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-10720.html
r) photius.com/countries/poland/government/
s) poland.gov.pl/
t) globaljournalist.org/archive/Magazine/Michnik-20002q.html
10. Polish integration with the European Union.
a) Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Elżbieta, Synowiec, Ewa, Poland in the European Union, Instytut Koniunktur i Cen Handlu Zagranicznego, Warszawa, 2004.
b) Katarzyna Krok, Maciej Smętkowski, Cross-border co-operaction of Poland after EU Enlargement. Focus on Eastern Border, SCHOLAR, 2006.
c) Central Europe on the Eve of EU Accession, CES Report, part 2, W. Paczyński, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw, 2002.
d) Albi, Anneli, EU enlargement and the constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
e) Cordell, Karl (ed.), Poland and the European Union, London: Routledge, 2000.
f) Cremona, Marise (ed.), The enlargement of the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
g) Mair, Peter and Jan Zielonka (eds.), The enlarged European Union: diversity and adaptation, London: Frank Cass, 2002.
h) Muller-Graff, Peter-Christian (eds.), Poland and the European Union: between association and membership, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1997.
i) Blazyca, George and Marek Kolkiewicz, "Poland and the EU: internal disputes, domestic politics and association", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 15(4): 131-143, 1999.
j) Mucha, Janusz and Marek S. Szczepanski, "Polish society in the perspective of its integration with the European Union", East European Quarterly, 35(4): 483-498, 2002.
k) Stawarska, Renata, "EU enlargement from the Polish perspective", Journal of European Public Policy, 6(5):822-38, 1999.
l) Szczerbiak, Aleks, "History trumps government unpopularity: the June 2003 Polish EU accession referendum," West European Politics, 27(4): 671-690, 2004.
m) Zubek, Radoslaw, "Complying with transpoitision commitments in Poland: collective dilemmas, core executive and legislative outcomes", West European Politics, 28 (3): 592-619, 2005.
n) Cordell Karl, Poland and the European Union, Routledge, 2000.
o) Peter A. Poole, Europe Unites. The EU's Eastern Enlargement, Praeger, Westpoint 2003.
p) Graham Avery, Cameron Fraser, The Enlargement of the European Union, Shefield Academic Press, 2001.
q) bized.ac.uk/current/mind/2003_4/120104.htm
r) european-movement.org/enlargement/focus_on_poland.php
s) ukie.gov.pl/www/en.nsf/DocByNews
t) europa.eu/
u) guardian.co.uk/eu/country/0,14489,1193436,00.html
If you have any further questions contact:
Aleksandra Bukowczyk
+ 48 600 284 388
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