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IV Ogólnopolski Zjazd Pedagogiczny w Olsztynie - Sekcja XIV: „Dzieje Europy i dzieje edukacji dla wspólnego świata”
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The synthesis of the European history of the “long” 20th century from the pen of Konrad H. Jarausch, Out of Ashes: A new history of Europe in the twentieth century (2015), became the impetus for the author of the presented text for consideration of the possibilities of the comprehension of the contemporary history of the diverse and very dynamic European continent. In the USA and Great Britain, a number of “European” syntheses have been written in the past decades. The originality of Jarausch’s work, which does not aspire to be a descriptive factual handbook, lies in that the author focused on the problem of widely conceived modernization, not only with a positive connotation as the leading phenomenon. At the same time, he placed the history of Germany and Russia/the Soviet Union in the centre of the description. He sees the interwar period and Second World War as the collision of the Nazi and Soviet models of modernization. The author interprets the post-war period of European history as competition
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In 1964 one of the most important academic journals of the Szczecin academic community, ‘Szczecin’, was transformed into the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ (Przegląd Zachodniopomorski); after the change it was still created mainly by historians. Together with the change the journal received more solid fi nancial foundations, a proper background of authors, and it became a strictly academic quarterly. In the years 1963–1985 the journal was run by Henryk Lesiński, in the years 1985–2012 by Tadeusz Białecki. In the editorial staff there were some outstanding personalities of several academic disciplines from Szczecin. The articles published covered the questions of history, Polish studies, sociology, economics, demography, law, culture, architecture, Polish-German relations, West- Pomeranian geography. There were also published monothematic studies, session materials and jubilee issues of outstanding representatives of the academic community. The editors managed to present a signifi cant part of the local academic production in the pages of the journal and to infl uence the development of the local academic community. There were articles from other academic centres in Poland and in the German Democratic Republic. In the 1960s and 1970s the contents of the journal show that its signifi cant part did not deal with the humanities subjects; there were many materials from the sphere of economy, agricultural and marine sciences, the favourite guilds of the State and the Party. However, in the 1980s those spheres gradually disappeared from the pages of the journal. The Szczecin scholars who wrote for the journal represented the local universities and other humanistic institutions. In the materials concerning history all the historical epochs were dealt with. The journal was the brainchild of the People’s Republic of Poland and the scientifi c policy of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR). With the passing of time, endeavours of the founders and editors and the local communities in three generations converted the journal into an important forum to elevate the successive young generations of humanists. On the other hand, in the fi rst quarter of the century of its existence, or a bit longer, the contents of the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ refl ected the German occupation experiences and the political views of the founders and their attitude of admiration towards the socialist regime and their acceptance of the historic alliance with the socialist Germany. They claimed that there was no alternative for what had happened in Poland after 1944/45. They rendered considerable services to create successive generations of Polish intelligentsia in the Polish West. If the journal is analysed from the standpoint of today, if the endeavours of its founders and editors and the whole academic community are taken into consideration, if it is seen as the work of three generations, it is becoming obvious that the journal has been an important forum to elevate the successive young generations of humanists. In the sphere of the humanities the questions most frequently treated have been the ones taken from history, sociology, the history of art and the history of architecture. As far as history is concerned, it has been the Szczecin community that contributed most to the journal; in the pages of the journal new historical epochs have appeared, the problems have been treated more precisely, the methodological tools have become more sophisticated; these facts prove that the academic community of Szczecin and Western Pomerania has made progress and has consolidated.
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This essay contains reflections on the role of war in European history and on contemporary Europeans’ awareness of the wars currently underway. In the historical part of the text, the author refers to the classic justification of the creation of a state as an alternative to war. The author recalls the conflicts and destruction in Europe to the end of the nineteenth century – an era in which war theoreticians and national leaders treated war as an acceptable tool for obtaining political aims. Then the author presents the world wars of the twentieth century as a threat to the existence of Europe and the process of building – in this century and with the large participation of Europeans – an international system to prevent conflicts. In the part referring to contemporary times, the author claims that in Europe wars are perceived almost exclusively as “local” conflicts, occurring far from European borders. Europeans are little aware of the fact that the sources of the wars in the Middle East and Africa are today global in nature and could affect Europeans themselves. The reluctance to admit these facts appears to be greatest in Poland and its neighboring countries in East Central Europe, where the attention of governments, public opinion, and even academics, is focused on the region’s twentieth-century wars.
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