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Nationalities relations in a totalitarian state. The case of East Central Europe under Soviet occupation (1939-1941) – methodological issues and a research agenda
In: Yearbook of the Institute of East-Central Europe: Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 205-232
The aim of the article is to present the specific nature of research on the issues of national relations in a totalitarian state based on the example of the lands of Central and Eastern Europe under the Soviet occupation from 1939-1941. In order to achieve this, the literature on the subject (in English and Polish) was reviewed as well as the most important methodological problems encountered by researchers. The research program was also outlined, along with a proposal for their conceptualization in the form of signalling the main aspects of the above-mentioned issues, including the specificity of the Soviet occupation of 1939-1941, social and ethnic relations in this area, and the Soviet nationalities policy. Several research methods and postulates were proposed, as well as perspectives and theoretical approaches that could facilitate the study of this complex and controversial subject, e.g., the interdisciplinary nature of research, methods of bottom-up formation of political attitudes of the population (the so-called "bottom-up" method), application of theories of the totalitarian state, and different theories of ethnicity. As a result, an interdisciplinary program of comparative studies of ethnic relations in Central and Eastern Europe under Soviet rule (1939-1941) was outlined, taking into account the transnational character of historical processes and the need to conduct micro historic analyses and case studies that would allow capturing of the diversity of ethnic relations and verify the effectiveness of the policy of the central Soviet authorities. The article argues that it seems obvious that the specificity of the analysed problematics can be properly grasped only by consideration it in the historical and theoretical context, adopting a comparative and transnational approach, from a micro-historical as well as everyday-life perspective that highlights the most important social factors which facilitated changes in interethnic relations.
Rola organizacji społecznych na polu mobilizacji politycznej polskiego wychodźstwa powojennego na przykładzie udziału emigracyjnego Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego w organizacji obchodów rocznic i świąt państwowych
In: Dzieje najnowsze: kwartalnik poświe̜cony historii XX wieku, Volume 51, Issue 2, p. 135
ISSN: 2451-1323
Budowa przemysłu zbrojeniowego II Rzeczypospolitej oglądana poprzez pryzmat biografii Jana Prota (1891-1957)
In: Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, Volume 9(45), Issue 1, p. 137-148
ISSN: 2544-5812
Marci Shore, The taste of ashes: the afterlife of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, New York 2013
In: Roczniki Nauk Społecznych, Volume 8(44), Issue 1, p. 145-152
ISSN: 2544-5812
Soviet Economic Policy in Annexed Eastern Poland, 1939–1941
In: Stalin and Europe, p. 114-137
Polish–Jewish Relations in Vilna and the Region of Western Vilna under Soviet Occupation, 1939–1941
In: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 19, p. 487-516
ISSN: 2516-8681
"My z Zetempe ...": upadek i likwidacja Zwia̜zku Młodzieży Polskiej ; (1955 - 1957)
In: Dokumenty do dziejów PRL 17