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Historia życia uczonego i środowiska naukowego

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Szulakiewicz W.

Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana

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2023

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vol. 26

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issue 1

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Book review: Stefan Kieniewicz, Pamiętniki. Do druku przygotował Jan Kieniewicz, Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2021, ss. 748

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Recenzja książki: Stefan Kieniewicz, Pamiętniki. Do druku przygotował Jan Kieniewicz, Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2021, ss. 748

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W stronę origines de la Pologne contemporaine – poszukiwania metodologiczne Stefana Kieniewicza w latach 1946–1948

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Wolniewicz M.

Klio Polska. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Historiografii Polskiej

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2017

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issue 9

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This article deals with Stefan Kieniewicz’s theoretical reflection on history in the years 1946–1948. A distinguished student of the history of the lands of partitioned Poland, Kieniewicz played his part in the elaboration of the Marxist interpretation of this period of Polish history. In the period under consideration, scholars still enjoyed a significant amount of freedom in the pursuit of their studies, including in terms of the search for methodological inspirations. The author’s attention is specifically drawn to Kieniewicz’s discussioin of the strenghts and weaknesses of the traditional model of historical research (the one based on the doctrine of individualistic historicism) on one hand and what was then regarded as new approaches to historical studies, inspired by Marxism and sociology, on the other. The author also attempts to show the extent to which these new inspirations informed Kieniewicz’s concept of ‘integral history’ and his program of the social history of partitioned Poland.

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Przedmiotem artykułu jest refleksja metodologiczna Stefana Kieniewicza, jednego z najwybitniejszych badaczy porozbiorowych dziejów Polski i współtwórcy ich marksistowskiej interpretacji. Rozważania ograniczają się do lat 1946–1948, w których refleksję taką można było podejmować ze względną swobodą. W artykule ukazano dokonaną przez Kieniewicza konfrontację założeń tradycyjnego modelu historii (opartego na indywidualistycznym historyzmie) z tendencjami modernizacyjnymi inspirowanymi przez nauki socjologiczne i marksizm, a także wpływ tych poszukiwań na wizję „historii integralnej” i program historii społecznej Polski porozbiorowej.

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Z czego żył historyk w czasie wojny? Przypadek Stefana Kieniewicza (1939–1945)

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Wolniewicz M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2022

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issue 1

157–173

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The article discusses how the people of science and scholars made their living in occupied Poland (1939–1945). The problem is shown on the example of the wartime fate of an outstanding historian, Stefan Kieniewicz (1907–1992), whose diaries, juxtaposed with a variety of source material (including the materials from the German Archive Office [Archivamt]), allow for a relatively detailed analysis of the topic. The story stemming from these documents shows a survival strategy that seemed an obvious choice for a representative of the landed gentry intelligentsia. It was based on the use of education and family connections. Education allowed Kieniewicz to take up intellectual jobs, which he kept simultaneously in the Treasury Archive (Archiwum Skarbowe, Finanzarchiv) taken over by the Germans and in the apparatus of the Underground State (Information and Propaganda Office of the Home Army Headquarters). It also made him eligible for the support provided to the authors by the Warsaw bookseller, M. Arct. The income from these jobs was usually not enough for Kieniewicz to support his family in Warsaw. Up to a point, the deficit was covered by selling off valuable movable property and giving up the gentry lifestyle. Ultimately, the family used the hospitality of their relatives and moved to the estates in Ruszcza and Topola. The Warsaw Uprising deprived the Kieniewiczs of the remains of their possessions, and the agrarian reform deprived their more affluent relatives of property. These events concluded the transformation of Kieniewicz’s social status into the ‘academic intelligentsia’.

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On the Process of De-Stalinization of Polish Historiography – Stefan Kieniewicz (1907–92) and the Insurgent Tradition

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Wolniewicz M.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2017

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vol. 115

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The article is a case study illustrating the process of Stalinization and de-Stalinization of Polish historiography. The issue in question is placed in the context of tradition understood in terms of one’s relation towards historical heritage. An analysis of Stefan Kieniewicz’s historical thought, one of the most distinguished experts on the history of the national uprisings of the post-partitioned era, is hoped to provide significant insights into the process of ideologization and de-ideologization of the Polish historiography of the communist era. While in the Stalinist account of Polish history national uprisings, having been included under the category of ‘progressive traditions’, tended to be equated with Lenin’s idea of agrarian revolution, Kieniewicz’s interpretation – the evolution of which marked the successive stages of the process of de-Stalinization – tended first to replace the Leninist concept with the nineteenth-century idea of social revolution and then to abandon the ‘progressive traditions’ in favour of the ‘reactionary ones’ (the role of Catholicism and the Polish presence in the East). Thus, the Stalinist account of the uprisings understood as the anti-feudal revolutions fostering the rise of ‘capitalism’ and ‘bourgeois nation’ was giving way to an interpretation in which the nineteenth-century armed movements were seen as a national struggle for freedom resulting in the development of Polish national consciousness in the ethnically Polish territories, and in the regression of this consciousness in the eastern lands of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. When approached from the perspective of tradition, these interpretations appear to have aimed at inventing tradition (Stalinism) on one hand and at transforming heritage in a way which preserves its historical meaning on the other.

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Historia życia uczonego i środowiska naukowego

W stronę origines de la Pologne contemporaine – poszukiwania metodologiczne Stefana Kieniewicza w latach 1946–1948

Z czego żył historyk w czasie wojny? Przypadek Stefana Kieniewicza (1939–1945)

On the Process of De-Stalinization of Polish Historiography – Stefan Kieniewicz (1907–92) and the Insurgent Tradition