{"title":"„Katastrofa materialna” we wspomnieniach przedstawicielek polskiej arystokracji i ziemiaństwa z Kresów","authors":"Małgorzata Okupnik","doi":"10.11649/SN.2013.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2013.007","url":null,"abstract":"“Material catastrophe” in the memories of three women – members of the Polish aristocracy and landed gentry from the Polish Eastern Borderlands History has treated cruelly the families of landed gentry and aristocracy who lived in the Polish Eastern Borderland – the eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic ( Kresy ). This essay focuses on memories of women, members of the Polish aristocracy and landed gentry from the kresy , published in the following books: “We and Our Homes” ( My i nasze Siedliska ) by Matylda nee Windisch-Graetz Sapiezyna, “Times, Places, People. Memories from the Eastern Borderlands, 1893-1946” ( Czasy, miejsca, ludzie. Wspomnienia z Kresow Wschodnich 1893-1946 ) by Helena nee Jaczynowska Rothowa, and ”My Life, My Times” ( Moje zycie, moj czas ) by Maria nee Z dziechowska Sapiezyna. Their memories are not a full historical picture including the complex political and historic context, instead they concentrate on the precise fates of their families in the kresy (though their presence there was called, not without a reason, a kind of ‘colonization’). The three authoresses present themselves as victims of great politics and changes happening beyond their control. Thus, these three (auto)biographical narrations enter the canon of literature about the eastern frontier and correspond with the canon of ‘the esthetics of loss.’ the analysis demonstrates that in all the books under consideration particular attention has been devoted to the material sphere of everyday life because the female biographers wanted to describe their world in the Kresy in detail and at the same time show how much they had lost.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"115-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64872161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Z Kaliningradu na Кёнигсберг – zapotrzebowanie społeczne czy marzenie nielicznych? Społeczna inicjatywa zmiany nazwy miasta","authors":"M. Zieliński","doi":"10.11649/SN.2013.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2013.022","url":null,"abstract":"Kaliningrad into Кёнигсберг – a social need or a dream of a few? Societal initiative for a change of the city’s name Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation has been subject to manifold social processes due to its specific history, geographic conditions and other factors. Some of the former resulted in rejecting numerous elements of the Soviet past by a part of the local population. This included the very name of Kaliningrad, as a tribute paid to Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin who has been considered one of the state and party officials responsible for mass purges in the 1930s and 1940s. the purpose of the article is to analyse the initiative put forward by a group of social activists to change the name ‘Kaliningrad’ into ‘Кёнигсберг’ ( Konigsberg ), that is to return to the pre-war name of the city. As authors of the petition refer to previous attempts of changing the name and use them as an important part of their reasoning, the history of the notion has also been outlined with emphasis on the December 1988 discussion noted by Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, then a Communist Party official. In the article, a brief introduction of the petition is followed by main arguments used by its supporters and the discussion which the document triggered among the local administration and in the media, in particular the Internet. The discussion concentrated on two aspects of the petition. First, controversies around procedural handling of the petition by Kaliningrad Duma. Secondly, fierce debates about phrases used in the document and their political significance in the context of the contemporary identity of Kaliningrad Oblast. Results of the debate and the impact the petition had on broader public opinion, both in Kaliningrad Oblast and the whole of Russia, turned out to be meagre. Only 400 signatures were collected across the country to support the idea. No decisive measures were taken on the administrative level such as moving the initiative toward a referendum. No agreement was reached between those who wish to turn the whole notion down and those who would like to postpone the final decision to a more distant future. In conclusion, it is worth noting that despite the obvious failure of the petition the discussion showed considerable social activity in Kaliningrad Oblast, especially on the part of the younger generation. This was reflected by a number of threads and posts in electronic media, many of which served as a basis for a constructive debate with relatively few irrelevant (insulting, aggressive and vulgar) arguments. On the other hand, the article shows that there is still considerable nostalgia for the Soviet Union and its artifacts in Kaliningrad Oblast.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"25 1","pages":"131-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64872034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Przemiany narodowościowo-językowe ludności Białorusi na przełomie XX i XXI wieku","authors":"P. Eberhardt","doi":"10.11649/SN.2013.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2013.019","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnic and linguistic changes of the Belarusian population at the turn of the 21th century The first part of the article presents historical background of the origin of the Belarusian nation, located in the area of a confrontation between Russia and Poland. This rivalry was won by Russia, and in effect Belarusian land was incorporated into the Russian Empire, and later into the Soviet state. The next part presents the 20th century ethnic structure as the consequence of the Bolshevik Revolution and World Wars I and II, resulting in some border changes, war loses and migration movements. The main part of the article deals with the ethnic and language changes which occurred in the last decade of the 20th and in the first decade of the 21st centuries. The statistical analysis and interpretation is based on data from three population censuses (1989, 1999, 2009). An ethnic structure and linguistic situation are presented with the emphasis placed on the status of the two languages commonly used in Belarus, i.e. Russian and Belarusian, as seen in two categories: of mother language and of the language used for communication at home. The conclusions prove the expansion of popularity of the Russian language and gradual decrease of the use of the Belarusian language, both in public and at home. The processes of Russification, which had begun in the Soviet period, are intensifying despite the fact that Belarus regained its political souverianity as a country. On the basis of quantitative data the author defines specific intensity and territorial distribution of the influence of the Russian language. The final part of the article shows political and geo-political consequences of these changes in Belarus.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"75-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64872427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reference points of European identity: Conceptualizing identity beyond the nation-state","authors":"Manfred Kohler","doi":"10.11649/SN.2013.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2013.016","url":null,"abstract":"Reference points of European identity: conceptualizing identity beyond the nation-state This article formulates and introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding the nature and characteristics of collective (state) identities, especially European identity here. This conceptual framework shall give impetus to conduct new and comprehensive research on collective (state) identities in and beyond the nation-state. It has the advantage of being applicable to all kinds of collective identities – from simple private associations, complex nation-states and supra- or trans- national political systems like that of the European Union. Punkty odniesienia tozsamości europejskiej: konceptualizacja tozsamości poza obrebem panstwa narodowego Niniejszy artykul formuluje i wprowadza szerokie ramy pojeciowe dla wszechstronnego zrozumienia natury i charakteru tozsamości zbiorowych (panstwowych), szczegolnie zaś tozsamości europejskiej. Owe ramy pojeciowe powinny stworzyc impuls dla podjecia nowych, kompleksowych studiow nad tozsamościami zbiorowościowymi (panstwowymi) zarowno w obrebie panstwa narodowego, jak i poza nim. Zaletą przedstawionego w artykule ujecia jest to, ze mozliwe jest jego zastosowanie w odniesieniu do jak najbardziej zroznicowanych tozsamości – od prostych prywatnych stowarzyszen przez zlozone panstwa narodowe do ponad- i miedzynarodowych systemow politycznych, takich jak Unia Europejska.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"42 1","pages":"7-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64872256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How pluralism becomes hierarchical? Debating pluralism in contemporary Poland","authors":"A. Pasieka","doi":"10.11649/SN.2013.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2013.018","url":null,"abstract":"How pluralism becomes hierarchical? Debating pluralism in contemporary Poland This article discusses the multifaceted nature of religious pluralism. More specifically, it seeks to answer the question why, while advancing the claims of equality and diversity, the idea of pluralism reproduces inequalities and naturalizes hierarchies. In order to illuminate this problem, the article first presents a theoretical discussion and then refers it to the ethnographic evidence from a yearlong fieldwork in a multireligious locality in southeast Poland. It analyzes the impact of the discourse on “multiculturalism” on minorities’ plights and it exposes the processes in which religion, reconfigured as “culture” or “tradition,” is used as a discriminatory tool. By combining an exploration of a concrete ethnographic setting with an investigation of the broader implications of locally observed phenomena, it demonstrates the importance of anthropological perspective in the study of pluralism, or rather: the importance of a thorough dialogue between theory and ethnography. Dlaczego pluralizm hierarchizuje? Dyskusja na temat pluralizmu we wspolczesnej Polsce Artykul podejmuje problem pluralizmu religijnego. Jego celem jest udzielenie odpowiedzi na pytanie dlaczego, mimo iz „pluralizm” promuje roznorodnośc i rownośc, rownocześnie prowadzi do reprodukowania nierowności i czyni „naturalnymi” hierarchiczne relacje. W tym celu, artykul w pierwszej kolejności przedstawia teoretyczną dyskusje, nastepnie zaś lączy ją z obserwacjami z rocznych badan terenowych prowadzonych w wieloreligijnej gminie w poludniowo-wschodniej Polsce. Poddaje analizie wplyw dyskursu na temat „wielokulturowości” na sytuacje mniejszości oraz wyjaśnia, jak religia – rozumiana jako „kulturowy zasob” lub „tradycja” – staje sie narzedziem dyskryminacji. lącząc analize konkretnego przypadku z refleksją na temat szerszych implikacji badanych zjawisk, artykul dowodzi znaczenia antropologicznej perspektywy w badaniu pluralizmu, a mowiąc precyzyjniej: znaczenia dialogu miedzy teorią a etnografią.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"43 1","pages":"53-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64872304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polsko-czechosłowackie konwencje turystyczne jako przykład współpracy transgranicznej","authors":"Łukasz Lewkowicz","doi":"10.11649/SN.2014.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2014.027","url":null,"abstract":"Polish-Czechoslovak tourist conventions as an example of transfrontier cooperation The article provides a general description of Polish-Czechoslovak tourist conventions from inter- and post-war periods. It presents the conditions of signing of these unique international agreements, the decision-making process, as well as the basic principles of the conventions. Overall, the tourist conventions are special kinds mostly bilateral international agreements aimed at simplifying the rules of transfrontier traffic within a region attractive to tourists, such as the Carpathian and Sudetic borderlands. Poland and Czechoslovakia were the precursors of this kind of transfrontier cooperation across Europe. The first tourist convention was signed in 1925 as a direct result of so-called Cracow Protocols, which aimed at regulating economic, communication and tourist issues with Czechoslovakia after the Jaworzyna Spiska conflict. The next tourist agreement of 1955 was adopted as a result of the post-Stalinist Thaw, which allowed a certain liberalization of the border regime between the two countries. The agreement was amended and extended in 1961-1962, and was in force till the early 1980s. The experiences of the functioning of the tourist conventions became a model for Euroregions which stared to emerge in the area under discussion. Moreover, they also served as a model for central authorities in liberalizing the border regime in the 1990s. Polsko-czechoslowackie konwencje turystyczne jako przyklad wspolpracy transgranicznej Celem artykulu byla ogolna charakterystyka polsko-czechoslowackich konwencji turystycznych z okresu miedzy- i powojennego. Przedstawione zostaly uwarunkowania podpisania tych unikatowych umow miedzynarodowych, proces decyzyjny, poddano analizie rowniez podstawowe zalozenia konwencji. Generalnie konwencje turystyczne to specyficzny rodzaj, najcześciej bilateralnych, umow miedzynarodowych sluzących uproszczeniu zasad ruchu transgranicznego w obrebie atrakcyjnego turystycznie regionu, w tym przypadku pogranicza karpackiego i sudeckiego. Polska i Czechoslowacja byly prekursorami tego rodzaju wspolpracy transgranicznej w calej Europie. Pierwsza konwencja turystyczna zostala podpisana w 1925 roku jako bezpośredni rezultat tzw. protokolow krakowskich mających na celu uregulowanie kwestii gospodarczych, komunikacyjnych i turystycznych z Czechoslowacją po zakonczeniu konfliktu o Jaworzyne Spiską. Kolejna umowa turystyczna z 1955 roku przyjeta zostala jako efekt postalinowskiej odwilzy, ktora pozwolila na pewną liberalizacje rezimu granicznego miedzy obu panstwami. Umowa byla nowelizowana i poszerzana w latach 1961-1962 i obowiązywala do początku lat 80. XX wieku. Doświadczenia funkcjonowania konwencji turystycznych staly sie wzorcem dla tworzących sie na badanym obszarze euroregionow. Stanowily rowniez wzorzec dla wladz centralnych podejmujących dzialania liberalizujące rezim graniczny w latach 90.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"125-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64873880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"O roli polskiej muzyki w kształtowaniu tożsamości narodowej","authors":"J. Zaniewicz","doi":"10.11649/SN.2014.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2014.028","url":null,"abstract":"On the influence of Polish music on national identity The article deals with the role of patriotic songs in shaping national identity of the Polish. The discourse is divided into three matters. The first part is introductory and treats about the most essential issues and research problems, regarding the key topic. I attempt to answer the raised questions in the last part of the work. The middle part of a historical character presents crucial research assumptions, along with all the transformations that have taken place over the years, and have been influencing our comprehending of national songs and strengthening the feeling of national identity. The final part sums the discourse up and is critical to the key topic. I strive to foresee possible consequences of the described phenomena. I derive my conclusions from the analysis, presented in the second part of the article, and from my personal experience, which has been gained due to long years of participating and organizing patriotic concerts and performances. O roli polskiej muzyki w ksztaltowaniu tozsamości narodowej W ponizszym artykule zajmuje sie rozwazaniami na temat wspolczesnej roli pieśni patriotycznej w ksztaltowaniu tozsamości narodowej Polakow. Artykul zostal podzielony na trzy cześci. Pierwsza z nich ma charakter wprowadzający i przedstawia najwazniejsze problemy badawcze dotyczące tematu. Druga cześc ma charakter historyczny, przedstawia najistotniejsze zalozenia badaczy oraz przemiany na przestrzeni lat naszego rozumienia znaczenia pieśni patriotycznych w ksztaltowaniu i umacnianiu polskiej tozsamości narodowej. Ostatnia cześc stanowi probe przewidzenia przyszlych nastepstw analizowanego problemu. Przedstawione wnioski opierają sie na analizie oraz obserwacjach wlasnych wynikających z wielu lat uczestniczenia, organizowania i tworzenia koncertow o charakterze patriotycznym.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"137-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64873492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polak – katolik? Recenzja książki: Joanna Krotofil, Religia w procesie kształtowania tożsamości wśród polskich migrantów w Wielkiej Brytanii, Nomos, Kraków 2013, ss. 302","authors":"Krzysztof Jaskułowski","doi":"10.11649/SN.2014.030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2014.030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"156-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64873639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kwestie i spory religijne na terenie Rusi Zakarpackiej w czechosłowackim epizodzie jej dziejów","authors":"Michał Jarnecki, Mykoła Palinczak","doi":"10.11649/SN.2014.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11649/SN.2014.025","url":null,"abstract":"The issues and religious disputes in Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovak period and its echoes behind the Atlantic In Subcarpathian Ruthenia in the interwar period – during her membership in Czechoslovakia, one of the sharper conflict was a dispute between two Christian churches. In fact, the rivalry of the two churches began even earlier, during the Hungarian reign – before 1918, but broke out with the new intensity in the interwar period. The Czech authorities, retained neutrality in the confessional disputes, unlike its predecessors, favoring the units. The dispute also had political significance – namely in the conflict between national orientations: Russophile and Ukrainian. Both churches were not monoliths and shook them as internal tensions, including politically motivated ones. Religious conflicts had also their roots and echoes on the other side of the Atlantic. Part of the Greek-Catholic immigrants Transcarpathian did not want to submit to the American Catholic hierarchy, who failed to see the specifics of this group of emigrants. During the period between the Uniate Church recorded outflow faithful to the Orthodox Church, by almost 5% (from nearly 55% to 50.2%) and Orthodox increase by approximately the same proportion – over 15% of the population. Kwestie i spory religijne na terenie Rusi Zakarpackiej w czechoslowackim epizodzie jej dziejow Na Rusi Zakarpackiej w okresie miedzywojennym, podczas jej przynalezności do Czechoslowacji, jednym z ostrzejszych konfliktow byl spor pomiedzy dwoma chrześcijanskimi Kościolami. Faktycznie rywalizacja dwoch Kościolow zaczela sie wcześniej, za rządow wegierskich – przed 1918 rokiem, ale rozgorzala z nową intensywnością w okresie miedzywojennym, kiedy wladze czeskie, zachowywaly neutralnośc w tych konfesyjnych sporach, w przeciwienstwie od poprzednikow, faworyzujących unitow. Spor mial takze aspekt polityczny – ocierając sie o konflikt miedzy orientacjami narodowymi: ukrainską i rosyjską. Oba Kościoly nie byly monolitami i wstrząsaly nimi takze wewnetrzne napiecia, w tym na tle politycznym. Konflikty na tle religijnym mialy tez swoje zaoceaniczne korzenie i echa, gdzie cześc grekokatolickich emigrantow zakarpackich nie chciala sie podporządkowac amerykanskiej hierarchii katolickiej, nie dostrzegającej specyfiki tej grupy wychodźcow. Podczas okresu miedzywojennego Kościol unicki odnotowal odplyw wiernych na rzecz prawoslawia, o prawie 5% (z prawie 55 do 50,2%), a Cerkiew Prawoslawna przyrost o mniej wiecej o ten sam odsetek – do ponad 15% mieszkancow.","PeriodicalId":30630,"journal":{"name":"Sprawy Narodowosciowe Seria nowa","volume":"1 1","pages":"88-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64873720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}