HIB0362 The Political Opposition in Poland under the Communist Regime (1944-1989)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Rudolf Vévoda (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
each odd Friday 11:40–14:55 B21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 90 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/90, only registered: 0/90, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/90
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This course familiarises students with the social, politcal and cultural developments in Poland during the era of the People’s Republic of Poland. Emphasis is placed on the oppositon to the Communist authorities, on the development and changes in its form in relationship to the time of social crisis, on the origin and expansion of the dissident movement after 1956 and on the similarities and differences between developments in Poland and in Czechoslovakia.
Graduates from the course must be able to: understand the principle eras in postwar Polish history and the key figures involved; on the basis of their reading to be able to distinguish, name and describe the main types of Polish opposition and ideas in exile (revisionism, neopositivism, conservatism, integrated anticommunism etc) and arrange them to their corresponding periods. on the basis of a knowledge of Polish history after 1939/1944, to be able to understand specific questions concerning Polish political conditions, foreign policy and the intellectual life of Poland after 1989.
Syllabus
  • 1. Polish messianism, its politcal and spiritual history. Polish history at the time of the occupation.
  • 2. The second “Rzeczpospolitá”: interwar Poland and myth – Polish opposition thought as a “dispute between the coffins of Piłsudski and Dmowski”.
  • 3. Polish political and cultural exile, varieties and changes in discourse. Jerzy Giedroyc and “Kultura”.
  • 4. Specific issues of the periodisation of Polish postwar history during the development of the Soviet Bloc.
  • 5. The phenomenology of resistance: from resistance to opposition.
  • 6. “Zionism”, “Judaeo-commune”, “Judaeo-Polonia”: anti-Semitism, language, power, opposition.
  • 7. The security apparatus, mechanisms of repression. Lustration arguments post-1989.v 8. Literature and politics, literature as a political matter.
  • 9. The Polish “Październik” 1956 and its second life in Communist Poland.
  • 10. Polish opposition thought: revisionism.
  • 11. Polish opposition thought (2): neopositivism or ZNAK.
  • 12. Polish opposition thought (3): liberals and writers.
  • 13. Polish “Marzec” and Czech August 1968. Parallels and differences.
  • 14. “Boże, coś Polskę...” The Roman Catholic Church between political power and the national aspirations of the Jan Pavel II phenomenon.
Literature
  • FRISZKE, Andrzej: Polska. Losy państwa i narodu 1939-1989
  • ROZSKOWSKI, Wojciech (ALBERT, Andrzej): Najnowsza historia Polski, t. 2 (1945-1980), t. 3. (1980-2002), Varšava 2003
  • DUDEK, Antoni – GRYZ, Antoni: Komuniści i Kościół w Polsce (1945-1989), Krakov 2003
  • DUDEK, Antoni: Reglamentowana rewolucja, Krakov 2004
  • BRZOZA, Czesław – SOWA, Andrzej Leon: Wielka historia Polski, t. 5, Krakov 2003
  • DUDEK, Antoni: Pierwsze lata III Rzeczypospolitej, Krakow 2002
  • Polsko a Československo v roce 1968 : sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference : Varšava, 4.-5. září 2003. Edited by Łukasz Kamiński, Translated by Petr Blažek - Rudolf Vévoda. Praha: Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, 2006, 361 stran. ISBN 8072850709. info
  • KŘEN, Jan. Dvě století střední Evropy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2005, 1109 s. ISBN 8072036122. info
  • Česká a polská historická tradice a její vztah k současnosti : Pardubická konference (18.-20. dubna 2002). Edited by Dominik Hrodek. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta, 2003, 241 s. ISBN 8073080397. URL info
  • PACZKOWSKI, Andrzej. Půl století dějin Polska 1939-1989. Translated by Petruška Šustrová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2000, 381 s. ISBN 8020007377. info
  • Zaciskanie pętli :tajne dokumenty dotaczące czechosłowacji 1968 r. Wyd. 1. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, 1995, 270 s. ISBN 83-7059-107-8. info
Bookmarks
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Assessment methods
lectures; colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
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