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The History of Poland From the Tenth Century to the Present
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16 September 1999
Introduction to course requirements and overview of course subjects
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 1, "Millennium: A Thousand Years of Polish History. Historiography", pp. 3-22 and ch. 2, "Polska: The Polish Land: Historical Geography", pp. 23-60.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 2-12.
23 September
Piast Poland: From the Foundation of the Polish State in the Tenth Century to the Fourteenth Century
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 3, "Piast: The Polonian Dynasty (to 1370)", pp. 61-104.
Henry Joseph Lang, "The Fall of the Monarchy of Mieszko II, Lambert", Speculum: A
Journal Of Medieval Studies XLIX: 4 (October 1974): 523-539.
Aleksander Gieysztor, "The Beginnings of Jewish Settlement in the Polish Lands", in The Jews in Poland, eds. Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 15-21.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 13-19.
Piotr Gorecki, Economy, Society and Lordship in Medieval Poland, 1100-1250 (NY: Holmes and Meir, 1992).
Pawel Jasienica, Piast Poland (NY: Hippocrene Books, 1985).
Paul W. Knoll, The Rise of the Polish Monarchy. Piast Poland in East Central Europe, 1320-1370 (University of Chicago Press, 1972).
Taddeusz Manteuffl, trans. and intro. by Andrew Gorski, The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule 963-1194 (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1982). (SSTL)
Benedykt Zentara, "Melioratio terrae: The Thirteenth-Century Breakthrough in Polish History", in A Republic of Nobles. Studies in Polish History Since 1854. Ed. and trans. J.K. Federowicz (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 31-48. (SSTL)
30 September
The Union with Lithuania: Poland under the Jagellonian Dynasty (1385-1572)
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 4, "Anjou: The Hungarian Connection (1370-1386)", pp. 106-114; ch. 5, "Jogaila: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572)", pp. 115-148; ch. 8, "Handel: The Baltic Grain Trade", pp. 256-92; ch. 9, "Miasto: The Vicissitudes of Urban Life", pp. 293-320.
Andrzej Wyczanski, "The Problem of Authority in Sixteenth-Century Poland: An Essay in Re-Interpretation", in A Republic of Nobles. Studies in Polish History Since 1854. Ed. and trans. J.K. Federowicz (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 91-108. (SSTL)
"Nihil Novi (1505)", in M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula, eds., Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 109-120. (SSTL)
Recommended Reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 20-22 and 34-41.
Jerome Blum, "The Rise of Serfdom in Eastern Europe", The American Historical Review LXII: 4 (1957): 807-36.
Oscar Halecki, Jadwiga of Anjou and the Rise of East Central Europe (PIASA / Columbia University Press, 1991).
Pawel Jasienica, Jagellonian Poland (Miami: American Institute of Polish Culture, 1978).
Antony Polonsky et. al., eds., The Jews in Old Poland 1000-1795 (London: I.B. Tauris, 1993).
7 October
Poland under the Jagellonian Dynasty Part II: The Renaissance and the Reformation Map Quiz
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 5, "Jogaila: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572)", pp. 148-152; ch. 6, "Antemurale: The Bulwark of Christendom", pp. 159-200, and ch. 7, "Szlachta: The Nobleman’s Paradise", pp. 201-55.
Maria Bogucka, "Polish Concepts of Time and Space During the Renaissance", in Poland and Europe: Historical Dimensions. Volume I: Selected Essays from the Fiftieth Anniversary International Congress of the PIASA, eds. M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula (East European Monographs, 1993), pp. 9-17.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 46-56.
Anna Brzezinska, "Accusations of Love Magic in the Renaissance Courtly Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", East Central Europe / L’Europe de l’Est 20-23 (1993-1996): 117-140.
Samuel Fiszman, ed., The Polish Renaissance in European Context (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988).
Harold B. Segel, Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism 1470-1543 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
14 October
A "Republic of Nobles": The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1572 to the mid-Seventeenth Century
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 5, "Jogaila: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572)", pp. 152-155; ch. 10, "Anarchia: The Noble Democracy", pp. 321-372; ch. 11, "Serenissima: Diplomacy in Poland-Lithuania", pp. 373-412; ch. 12, "Valois: The French Experiment (1572-1575)", pp. 413-20; ch. 13, "Bathory: The Transylvanian Victor (1576-1586)", pp. 421-32, ch. 14, "Vasa: The Swedish Connection (1587-1668)", pp. 433-47.
Maria Bogucka, The Lost World of the ‘Sarmatians’ (Warsaw, 1996), ch. 3, "Gesture and Word from Social Perspective", pp. 36-51.
"The General Confederation of Warsaw (1573)", in M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula, eds., Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp.131-33. (in reader and on SSTL)
Recommended reading:
Harry E. Dembkowski, The Union of Lublin: Polish Federation in the Golden Age (NY: Columbia University Press, 1982).
Oscar Halecki, From Florence to Brest, 1439-1596 (Hamden: Archon Books, 1986).
Pawel Jasienica, The Commonwealth of Both Nations (New York: Hypocrene Books, 1987).
Janusz Tazbir, A State without Stakes. Polish Religious Toleration in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1973).
21 October
The Deluge and Decline: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the mid- and late- Seventeenth Century
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 14, "Vasa: The Swedish Connection (1587-1668)", pp. 447-469; ch. 15, "Michael: The Austrian Candidate (1669-1673)", pp. 470-472; ch. 16, "Sobieski: The Terror of the Turks (1674-1696)", pp. 473-491.
"The Year of Our Lord 1683", in Memoirs of the Polish Baroque. The Writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, ed. and trans. C.S. Leach (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), pp. 261-279.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 57-61 and 67-69.
Robert I. Frost, After the Deluge. Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War 1655-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Andrzej Kaminski, "The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its Citizens: Was the Commonwealth a Stepmother for Cossacks and Ruthenians?", in Poland and Ukraine. Past and Present, ed. Peter J. Potichnyj (Edmonton: The Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, 1980), pp. 32-57.
Witold Kula, An Economic Theory of the Feudal System. Towards a Model of the Polish Economy 1500-1800 (London: NLB, 1976).
Frank E. Sysyn, "Ukrainian-Polish Relations in the Seventeenth Century", in Poland and Ukraine. Past and Present, ed. Peter J. Potichnyj (Edmonton and Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1980), pp. 58-82.
28 October
The "Saxon Night" and the Eve of the Partitions
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 17, "Wettin: The Saxon Era (1697-1763)", pp. 492-510.
Jacob Goldberg, "The Changes in the Attitude of Polish Society Toward the Jews in the Eighteenth Century", in From Shtetl to Socialism, ed. Antony Polonsky (London: Littman, 1993), pp. 50-59.
Recommended reading:
Bogna Lorence-Kot, Child-Rearing and Reform: A Study of the Nobility in 18th Century Poland (Greenwood Press, 1985).
Jerzy Lukowski, Liberty’s Folly. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Centruy, 1697-1795 (London: Routledge, 1991).
M.J. Rosman, The Lords’ Jews. Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 1990).
4 November
The First Partition of Poland (1772) and the "Gentle Revolution"
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 18, "Agonia: The End of the Russian Protectorate (1764-1795)", pp. 511-546 (to be read over this week and next).
"The Constitution of 3 May 1791", in M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula, eds., Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 168-177. (in reader and on SSTL)
William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark Interspersed with Historical Relations and Political Inquiries (New York: Arno Press, 1971), pp. 150-157.
Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford University Press, 1994), ch. 6, "Addressing Eastern Europe, Part II: Rousseau’s Poland", pp. 235-283. (SSTL)
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 70-72.
Richard Butterwick, Poland’s Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski 1732-1798 (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Janusz Duzinkiewicz, Fateful Transformations: The Four Years’ Parliament and the Constitution of May 3, 1791 (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1993).
Samuel Fiszman, ed. Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791 (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997).
Barbara Grochulska, "The Place of the Enlightenment in Polish Social History", in A Republic of Nobles. Studies in Polish History Since 1854. Ed. And trans. J.K. Federowicz (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 239-257. (SSTL)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Government of Poland, trans. Willmoore Kendall (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985). Excerpt from The Government of Poland in: The Nationalism Reader, eds. Omar Dahbour and Micheline R. Ishay (NJ: Humanities Press, 1995), pp. 30-34.
Daniel Stone, Polish Politics and National Reform 1775-1788 (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1976).
11 November
The Final Partitions of Poland (1793 and 1795) and the Demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Required reading:
Re-read: Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 1, ch. 18, "Agonia: The End of the Russian Protectorate", pp. 511-546.
Robert E. Jones, "Runaway Peasants and Russian Motives for the Partitions of Poland", Imperial Russian Foreign Policy, ed. Hugh Ragsdale (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 103-117.
"Polaniec Manifesto", in M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula, eds., Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 189-193. (in reader and on SSTL)
Recommended reading:
William W. Hagen, "The Partitions of Poland and the Crisis of the Old Regime in Prussia, 1772-1806", Central European History IX: 2 (June 1977): 115-128.
Robert H. Lord, The Second Partition of Poland. A Study in Diplomatic History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1915).
Jerzy Lukowski, The Partitions of Poland 1772, 1793, 1795 (NY: Longman, 1999).
18 November
Poland in the Napoleonic Era and the Congress of Vienna
Map Quiz
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 12, "Varsovie: The Duchy of Warsaw (1807-1815)", pp. 294-305.
Adam Gielgud, ed., Memoirs of Prince Adam Czartoryski and His Correspondence with Alexander I, vols. 1 and 2 (NY: Arno Press), vol. 2, ch. XVII (1809-1810), pp. 190-204.
Andrzej Nieuwazny, "Napoleon and Polish Identity", History Today 48: 5 (May 1998): 50-55.
Recommended Reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 73-77.
Artur Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780-1870 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), ch. 3, "The Napoleonic Upheavals", pp. 113-148.
H.W. Zawadzki, A Man of Honour: Adam Czartoryski as a Statesman of Russia and Poland, 1795-1831 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), ch. 10, "Vienna: The Struggle for Polish Statehood (1814-1815)", pp. 234-258.
25 November
The Austrian and the Prussian Partitions to 1848
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 3, "Preussen: The Prussian Partition (1772-1918)", pp. 112-138; ch. 4, "Galicia: The Austrian Partition (1773-1918)", pp. 139-162; ch. 14, "Cracovia: The Republic of Cracow (1815-1846)", pp. 334-339; and ch. 15, "Wiosna: The Springtime of Other Nations (1848)", pp. 340-346.
"Manifesto of the National Government of the Republic of Poland, Krakow, 22 February 1846", in Stefan Kieniewicz, Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry (1969), pp. 253-254.
Recommended reading:
William Hagen, "The Impact of Economic Modernization on Traditional Nationality Relations in Prussian Poland, 1815-1914", Journal of Social History (Spring 1973): 306-324.
John-Paul Himka, Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1988).
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., "The Peasant Revolt of 1846 in Galicia: Recent Polish Historiography", Slavic Review 30: 4 (December 1971): 795-817.
Lech Trzeciakowski, "Relations Between the Polish and German Populations of Prussian Poland, 1772-1918", in Eastern Europe and the West, ed. John Morris (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), pp. 173-185.
Piotr Wandycz, "Poles in the Habsburg Monarchy", Austrian History Yearbook 3: 2 (1967): 261-286; rpt. in Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism. Essays on Austrian Galicia, eds. Andrea S. Markovits and Frank E. Sysyn (Harvard University Press, 1982), pp. 68-93.
2 December
The November Insurrection (1830/31) in the Congress Kingdom of Poland
Book review due
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 2, "Rossiya: The Russian Partition (1772-1918)", pp. 81-111; and ch. 13, "Kongressowka: The Congress Kingdom (1815-1846)", pp. 306-333.
John Kulczycki, "Norman Davies’ Playground: Nineteenth-Century Polish History", Eastern European Politics and Societies 1 (1987): 456-473.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 76-77.
Stefan Kieniewicz, "The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society and the Partitioning Powers 1795-1861", in From Shtetl to Socialism, ed. Antony Polonsky (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993), pp. 83-100.
R.F. Leslie, Polish Politics and the Revolution of November 1830 (London: The Athlone Press, 1956).
9 December
"Apostles among the idolaters and pilgrims of freedom": The Poles and Romantic Nationalism
Last class of first term
Required reading:
Jerzy Jedlicki, "Holy Ideals and Prosaic Life, or the Devil’s Alternative", in Polish Paradoxes, eds. Stanislaw Gomulka and Antony Polonsky (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 40-62.
"Manifesto of The Polish Democratic Society, Poitiers, 1836", in M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula, eds., Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), pp. 199-209. (in reader and on SSTL)
Andrzej Walicki, Philosophy and Romantic Nationalism: The Case of Poland (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), ch. V, "A Critic of Messianism: Cyprian Norwid", pp. 322-333.
Recommended reading:
Peter Brock, "Z.D. Chodakowski and the Discovery of Folklife: A Chapter in the History of Polish Nationalism", Polish Review XXI: 1-2 (1976): 3-21.
Joan S. Skurnowicz, Romantic Nationalism and Liberalism: Joachim Lelewel and the Polish National Idea (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1981).
Andrzej Walicki, Russia, Poland and Universal Regeneration: Studies on Russian and Polish Thought of the Romantic Epoch (University of Notre Dame Press, 1991).
6 January
The January Insurrection of 1863/64, and the Turn to Positivism
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 16, "Reveries: The Thaw and the January Rising 1855 to 1864)", pp. 347-368; and review ch. 2, "Rossiya: The Russian Partition (1772-1918)", pp. 81-111.
Bogna Lorence-Kot, "Konspiracja: Probing the Topography of Women’s Underground Activities: The Kingdom of Poland in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century", in Women in Polish Society, eds. Rudolf Jaworski and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1992), pp. 31-51.
Recommended reading:
R.F. Leslie, Reform and Insurrection in Russian Poland, 1856-1865 (London: The Athlone Press, 1963).
Magdalena Opalinski, The Jewish Tavern-Keeper and His Tavern in Nineteenth-Century Polish Literature (Jerusalem: The Zulman Shazar Centre for the Furtherance of the Study of Jewish History, 1986).
Omeljan Pritsak, "The Pogroms of 1881", Harvard Ukrainian Studies XI: 1-2 (1987): 8-43.
Boleslaw Prus, The Doll (1890), trans. David Welsh (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1996).
Theodore R. Weeks, "Defining Us and Them: Poles and Russians in the `Western Provinces’, 1863-1914", Slavic Review 53: 1 (Spring 1994): 26-40.
13 January
Industrialization, Mass Politics and Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 6, "Lud: The Rise of the Common People", pp. 178-206.
Roman Dmowski, "A Modern Pole" in Adam Bromke, The Meaning and Uses of Polish History (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1987), pp. 127-132.
Brian Porter, "Democracy and Discipline in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland", Journal of Modern History 71 (June 19999): 346-393.
Keely Stauter-Halsted, "Patriotic Celebrations in Austrian Poland: The Kosciuszko Centennial and the Formation of Peasant Nationalism", Austrian History Yearbook XXV (1994): 79-95.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 90-120.
R. Blobaum, Feliks Dzierzynski and the SDKPiL: A Study of the Origins of Polish Communism (NY: Columbia University Press, 1984).
Stefan Kieniewicz, The Emancipation of the Polish Peasantry (University of Chicago Press, 1969).
Paul R. Magocsi, "Bibliographic Guide to the History of Ukrainians in Galicia: 1848-1918", in Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism. Essays on Austrian Galicia, eds. Andrei S. Markovits and Frank E. Sysyn (Harvard University Press, 1982), pp. 255-320.
Philip Pajakowski, "History, the Peasantry, and the Polish Nation in the Thought of Michal Bobrzynski", Nationalities Papers 26: 2 (1998): 249-264.
Brian A. Porter, "Who is a Pole and Where is Poland? Territory and Nation in the Rhetoric of Polish National Democracy", Slavic Review 51: 4 (Winter 1992): 639-653.
Anna Zarnowska, "Education of Working-Class Women in the Polish Kingdom (the 19th c – beginning of the 20th c)", Acta Poloniae Historica 74 (1996): 137159.
Piotr Wrobel, "Jewish Warsaw Before the First World War", Polin 3, pp. 156-183.
20 January
Industrialization in the Russian Partition: Andrzej Wajda’s Promised Land (1974) (180 minutes)
Please make arrangements to stay a little later than usual
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 5, "Fabryka: The Process of Industrialization", pp. 163-177.
Paul Coates, "Walls and Frontiers: Polish Cinema’s Portrayal of Polish-Jewish Relations", Polin 10 (1997): 221-229.
Wieslaw Pus, "The Development of the City of Lodz (1820-1939), Polin 6 (1991): 3-19.
Recommended reading:
Herbert J. Eagle, "Eastern European Cinema", in Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture, and Society Since 1939, ed. Sabrina P. Ramet (Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 330-351.
Pawel Samus, "The Jewish Community in the Political Life of Lodz in the Years 1865-1914", Polin 6 (1991): 88-104.
27 January
The Era of World War One and the Revival of the Polish State (1914-21)
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 10, "Wojsko: The Military Tradition", pp. 267-274; ch. 17, "Rewolucja: Revolution and Reaction (1904-1914), pp.369-377; ch. 18, "Feniks: The Rebirth of the Polish State (1914-1918)", pp. 378-392; and ch. 21, "Granice: The Modern Polish Frontiers", pp. 492-538.
Stephen Horak, ed. Poland’s International Affairs 1919-1960. A Calendar of Treaties, Agreements, Conventions, and Other International Acts (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Publications / Russian and East European Series, Vol. 31, 1964), 214-223 (selections 1914-1917).
Harold B. Segel, "Culture in Poland during World War I", in European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918, eds. Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 58-88.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 121-131.
Norman Davies, White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1920 (London: Macdonald, 1972).
Jozef Pilsudski, The Year 1920 and its Climax: The Battle of Warsaw (Holland: Weydenprint, 1972).
Matthew R. Schwonek, "Kazimierz Sosnkowski and the Foundations of Polish Military Policy, 1918-26", in Polish Review XLII: 1 (1997): 45-76.
Wiktor Sukiennicki, East Central Europe During World War One: From Foreign Domination to National Independence, vols. 1 and 2 (NY: Columbia University Press, 1984).
Piotr S. Wandycz, Soviet-Polish Relations 1917-1921 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969).
John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Brest-Litovsk. The Forgotten Peace (London: Macmillan, 1953).
Piotr Wrobel, "The First World War: The Twilight of Jewish Warsaw", The Jews in Warsaw, eds. Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski and Antony Polonsky (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), pp.278-290.
3 February
Politics, Society and Economics in the Second Polish Republic 1918-1939
Map Quiz
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 9, "Zydzi: The Jewish Community", pp. 240-266; and ch. 19, "Niepodleglosc: Twenty Years of Independence", pp. 393-434.
Ezra Mendelsohn, "Interwar Poland: Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews?", in The Jews in Poland, eds. Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 130-139.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 149-151.
Michael Bernhard, "Institutional Choice and the Failure of Democracy: The Case of Interwar Poland", East European Politics and Societies 13: 1 (Winter 1999): 34-70.
Alexander J. Groth, "Dmowski, Pilsudski and Ethnic Conflict in Pre-1939 Poland", Canadian Slavic Studies 3: 1 (Spring 1969): 69-91.
Ysrael Gutman et. al., eds., The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars (London: University Press of New England, 1989).
Stephen Horak, Poland and Her National Minorities, 1919-1939: A Case Study (NY: Vintage Press, 1961).
Ronald Modras, The Catholic Church and Antisemitism. Poland 1933-1939 (Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1994).
Alexander J. Motyl, "Ukrainian Nationalist Political Violence in Interwar Poland, 1921-1939", East European Quarterly 19: 1 (March 1985), pp. 45-55.
Antony Polonsky, Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government (Oxford: Clarendon, 1972).
Joseph Rothschild, Pilsudski’s Coup d’Etat (NY: Columbia University Press, 1966).
Richard Watt, Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate 1918-1939 (NY: Hippocrene Books,1979; rpt. 1998).
10 February
Intellectuals, Moral Responsibility, and the Nation
Essay Outline, Preliminary Bibliography and Precis Due
Required reading:
Bogdana Carpenter, The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1939 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983), "Introduction", pp. xi-xviii.
Witold Gombrowicz, Diary, Volume I: 1953-1956 (1957), trans. Lillian Vallee, ed. Jan Kott (Northwestern University Press, 1988), pp. 151-168.
Richard Sokolowski, "Stanislaw Przybyszewski’s ‘Confiteor’", Polish Review XXIX: 1-2 (1984): 39-46.
Recommended reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 8, "Kultura: Education and the Cultural Heritage", pp. 226-239; and ch. 7, "Kosciol", pp. 207-225.
Malgorzata Hendrykowska, "Was the Cinema Fairground Entertainment? The Birth and Role of Popular Cinema in the Polish Territories up to 1908", in Popular European Cinema, eds. Richard Dyer and Ginette Vincendeau (London: Routledge, 1992), pp.112-125.
Nina S. Kolesnikoff, "Polish Futurism: Its Origins and the Aesthetic Programme", Canadian Slavonic Papers 17 (1976): 301-311.
Frank Kujawinski, "Przybos and the Second Avant-Garde", Polish Review 38: 1 (1993): 25-40.
Harold B. Segel, "‘Young Poland’, Cracow and the ‘Little Green Balloon’", Polish Review V: 2 (Spring 1960): 74-97.
Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat. Life and Art of an Iconoclast (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
Aleksander Wat, My Century. The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual (1977), ed. and trans. Richard Lourie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
14 February to 18 February
Reading Week
24 February
Poland in World War Two
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 20, "Golgota: Poland in the Second World War", pp. 435-491.
Anna M. Cienciala, "General Sikorski and the Conclusion of the Polish-Soviet Agreement of July 30, 1941: A Reassessment", in Poland and Europe: Historical Dimensions. Volume I: Selected Essays from the Fiftieth Anniversary International Congress of the PIASA, eds. M.B. Biskupski and James S. Pula (East European Monographs, 1993), pp. 109-141.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 152-159.
Paul Allen, Katyn. The Untold Story (NY: Scribners, 1991)
Wladyslaw Anders, An Army in Exile (London: Macmillan, 1949).
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, The Warsaw Ghetto. A Christian’s Testimony (Boston, 1987).
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen (NY: Penguin, 1976).
Jozef Garlinski, Poland in the Second World War (London: Macmillan,1985).
Jan T. Gross, Revolution From Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland’s Western Ukraine and Western Belarussia (NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988).
Richard C. Lukas, Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944 (1986; rpt. NY: Hippocrene Books, 1990).
Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (1965) (NY: Grove Press, 1995).
Keith Sword, Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union 1939-1948 (London: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
Irene Tomaszewski, ed. and trans., I Am First a Human Being: The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska (Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1997).
Janusz K. Zawodny, Death in the Forest. The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre (University of Notre Dame Press, 1962).
2 March
The Jews of Poland in World War Two
Required reading:
Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1985). (SSTL)
Emmanuel Ringelblum, The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto, ed. and trans. Jacob Sloan (NY: Schoken Books, 1975). (SSTL)
or
Chaim A. Kaplan, The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan, trans. and ed. Abraham Katsh (NY: Collier Books, 1973). (SSTL)
Recommended reading:
Christopher R. Browning, "Nazi Ghettoization Policy in Poland 1939-41:, Central European History XIX: 4 (December 1986): 343-368.
David Engel, "An Early Account of Polish Jewry under Nazi and Soviet Occupation Presented to the Polish Government-In-Exile, February 1940", Jewish Social Studies XLV: 1 (1983): 1-16.
Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears. A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto, ed. Antony Polonsky, trans. Christopher Hutton (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988).
Michael Marrus, "Reflections on the Historiography of the Holocaust", Journal of Modern History 66 (March 1994): 92-116.
Dalia Ofer and Leonore J. Weitzman, eds., Women in the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 1998).
Jacob Sloan, ed. and trans., The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum. Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto (1958) (rpt. NY: Schoken Books, 1975).
Michael Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997).
9 March
The End of the War and the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland
Map Quiz Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 22, "Partia: The Communist Movement", pp. 539-555.
Interview with Jakub Berman", in Teresa Toranska, "Them". Stalin’s Polish Puppets (New York, 1987). (SSTL)
"Yalta" and "Spheres of Influence" in Gale Stokes, ed., From Stalinism to Pluralism. A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 (NY: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 12-27 and 28-32. (SSTL)
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 160-168.
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Ashes and Diamonds (1948), trans. D.J. Welsh (NY: Penguin Books, 1980).
Arthur Bliss Lane, I Saw Poland Betrayed. An American Ambassador Reports to the American People (Boston: Western Islands, 1965).
J. Coutouvidis and Jaime Reynolds, Poland 1939-1947 (Leicester, 1986).Krystyna Kersten, The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-48 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).
Krystyna Kersten, "The Pogrom of Jews in Kielce on July 4, 1949", Acta Poloniae Historica 76 (1997): 197-212.
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, The Rape of Poland: The Pattern of Soviet Aggression (NY: Whittlesey House, 1948).
Gabriele Simoncini, The Communist Party of Poland, 1918-1929. A Study in Political Ideology (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993).
16 March
The Polish Peoples’ Republic: Part I
Required reading:
Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 23, "Polska Ludowa: The Polish Peoples’ Republic", pp. 556-633 (to be read over this week and next).
"Address by the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Wladyslaw Gomulka, before a Citizens’ Rally in Warsaw (24 October 1956)", excerpt in Eastern European Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, ed. Peter F. Sugar (DC: The American University, 1995), pp. 252-255.
Adam Wazyk, "Poem for Adults", in National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe. A Selection of Documents on Events in Poland and Hungary, February-November, 1956, ed. Paul E. Zinner (NY: Columbia University Press, 1956), pp. 40-49.
Gabriel Meretik, "Goodbye to Poland", Commentary 48: 3 (September 1969): 55-62.
Adam Michnik, "Maggots and Angels, 1979", in Letters From Prison and Other Essays, trans. Maya Latynski (University of California Press, 1985), pp. 169-198.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 169-172.
Padraic Kenney, Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).
Mark Kramer, "The Soviet Union and the 1956 Crises in Hungary and Poland: Reassessments and New Findings", Journal of Contemporary History 33: 2 (April 1998): 163-214.
Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind (1953), trans. Jane Zielonko (NY: Penguin Books, 1985).
Ronald C. Monticone, The Catholic Church in Communist Poland 1945-1985 (NY: Columbia University Press, 1986).
David Ost, Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics. Opposition and Reform in Poland Since 1968 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990).
Renata Siemienska, "Women, Work, and Gender Equality in Poland: Reality and its Social Perception", in Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe, eds. Sharon L. Wolchik and Alfred G. Meyer (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), pp. 305-322.
Andrzej Walicki, "The Captive Mind Revisited: Intellectuals and Communist Totalitarianism in Poland", in Totalitarianism at the Crossroads, ed. Ellen Frankel Paul (New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Books, 1990), pp. 51-95.
Jan B. de Weydenthal, The Communists of Poland: An Historical Outline, rev. ed. (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1986).
23 March
The Cinema of Moral Concern: Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble (1976) (160 minutes)
Please make arrangements to stay a little later than usual
Required reading:
Geoffrey Fox, "Men of Wajda", Film Criticism VI: 1 (Fall 1981): 3-9.
Janina Falkowska, The Political Films of Andrzej Wajda. Dialogism in Man of Marble, Man of Iron and Danton (Oxford: Berghahn, 1996), pp. 67-79.
Andrzej Wajda, "The Artist’s Responsibility", in Politics, Art and Commitment in the East European Cinema, ed. David W. Paul (London: Macmillan, 1983), pp. 293-299.
Recommended reading:
Boleslaw Michalek and Frank Turaj, The Modern Cinema of Poland (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), ch. 5, "The Cinema of Moral Concern", pp. 59-93.
Frank Turaj, "Poland: The Cinema of Moral Concern", in Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, ed. Daniel J. Goulding (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), pp. 143-171.
30 March
The Polish Peoples’ Republic: Part II
Second-Term Essay Due
Required reading:
"Poland in the Late 1970s"; "Adam Michnik’s Letter from Gdansk Prison, 1985 (excerpts)"; and "The Return of Solidarity" in Gale Stokes, ed., From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, 2nd. Ed. (NY: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp.193-215, 225-228 and 235-242. (SSTL)
Padraic Kenney, "The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland", American Historical Review (April 1999): 399-425.
Recommended reading:
Neal Ascherson, The Polish August. The Self-Limiting Revolution (NY: Penguin, 1981).
Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (London: Granta Books, 1991).
Michael H. Bernhard, The Origins of Democratization in Poland. Workers, Intellectuals and Opposition Politics, 1976-1980 (NY: Columbia University Press, 1993).
Leszek Kolakowski, "The Intelligentsia", in Poland. Genesis of a Revolution, ed. Abraham Brumberg (NY: Vintage Books, 1983), pp. 54-67.
Jan Kubik, The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power. The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994)
Jadwiga Staniszkis, Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution (Princeton, 1984)
6 April
Post-Communist Poland
Last class!
Required reading:
Stanislaw Baranczak, Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 1-6.
Jan T. Gross, "Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation", in Eastern Europe in Revolution, ed. Ivo Banac (Cornell, 1992), pp. 56-71. (SSTL)
Tony Judt, "The Rediscovery of Central Europe", in Eastern Europe… Central Europe… Europe, ed. Stephen R. Graubard (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991), pp. 23-58. (SSTL)
Eva Stachniak, "Why Did We Not Become Feminists? Women in Poland", NWSA Journal 7: 3 (Fall 1995): 69-80.
Recommended reading:
Magocsi, Historical Atlas, pp. 173-175.
Jerzy Jedlicki, "The Revolution of 1989: The Unbearable Burden of History", in Eastern Europe. Transformation and Revolution, 1945-1991. Documents and Analyses, ed. Lyman H. Legters (Lexington: D.C. Heath and Co., 1992), pp. 635-643.
Alfred Majewicz, "Minority Situation Attitudes and Developments After the Return to Power of Post-Communists in Poland", Nationalities Papers 27:1 (March 1999):115-138.
Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy. Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ch. 4.
Renata Siemianska, "Women in the Period of Systemic Changes in Poland", Journal of Women’s History 5: 3 (Winter 1994): 70-90.
Sharon L. Wolchik, "Women and the Politics of Gender in Communist and Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe", in Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture, and Society Since 1939, ed. Sabrina P. Ramet (Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 285-303.
17 April to 5 May
Final Exam Period
As one way of reviewing for the exam, read: Davies, God’s Playground, vol. 2, ch. 1, "Narod: The Growth of the Modern Nation (1772-1945)", pp. 3-80.
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