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The aim of this article is to outline the theory of a historical process developed within the framework of the Poznań School of Methodology, mainly by Leszek Nowak and a team of his co-workers. In the first part of the paper, the meta-philosophical and meta-theoretical assumptions of Poznań school are reconstructed and juxtaposed with the relevant assumptions of Western analytical Marxism. In the central part of the paper, the main ideas of adaptive reconstruction of historical materialism and non-Marxian historical materialism are presented. In its final part, some problems of reception of Leszek Nowak’s theory of historical process in Polish People’s Republic and the Third Republic are discussed.
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Celem artykułu jest interpretacja teorii procesu historycznego rozwijanej w poznańskiej szkole metodologicznej przez Leszka Nowaka i zespól jego współpracowników. W pierwszej części artykułu przedstawiana metafilozoficzne i metateoretyczne założenia poznańskiej szkoły metodologicznej, które zestawiane są z założeniami zachodniego marksizmu analitycznego. W drugiej, zasadniczej części artykułu przedstawione są główne idee adaptacyjnej interpretacji materializmu historycznego i nie-Marksowskiego materializmu historycznego, zaś w trzeciej - problemy recepcji teorii procesu historycznego rozwijanej przez Leszka Nowaka w PRL i III RP.
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The purpose of this paper is to review of various approaches to „Solidarność” in  subject-matter literature. The author is going to seek answer to the following  interpretative question: whether a given conceptualization grasp „Solidarność”  movement in dynamic or in static way. In the second part of the paper interpretations  of „Solidarność” in analytical categories of insurrection, civil, postmodern,  religious, republican, revolutionary and social movements are presented. Finally, the  author tries to identify reasons of dynamic or static approach to „Solidarność”.
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The paper is a voice in discussion over Giacomo Borbone’s book The Relevance of Models. Idealization and Concretization in Leszek Nowak. The author characterizes intellectual tradition of Poznań School of Methodology and considers types of interpretation of Marx’s writing adopted by Nowak and his collaborators. According to him idealization theory of sciences resulted from two kinds of interpretations: adaptive and historical ones.
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In his paper, the author attempts to tackle the issue of reliability and specificity of documents (among them, the so-called “files”) stored at the Institute of National Remembrance, as well as the truthfulness of the narrative based on them. The paper consists of six parts. In the first chapter, the author critically analyses the objections raised by journalists and historians against the reliability of the archive records stored by the Institute of National Remembrance. In the second chapter, the author considers the reliability of the “files” in the light of Jerzy Topolski’s concept of the historical source. In the two successive chapters (third and fourth), the author characterizes the specificity of the documents produced by the communist repression apparatus by means of the two classifications of sources proposed by Gerard Labuda and Jerzy Topolski. The results of this analysis show that the “files” are not a new type of historical source and their discovery does not necessitate a radical reshaping of the existing sources classification and the introduction of new interpretation methods. However, Labuda’s and Topolski’s interpretations are useful, as they acknowledge the purpose of their creation, as well as the function that they performed in the political system of the communist state. In the fifth chapter, the author argues that the repression apparatus collected, selected, processed and stored information on social life, as it was believed that such data facilitated the exercising of political control over the society. Ignoring this aspect of the archive records led to historians’ methodical and heuristic errors – accepting the vision of social life and processes presented in the sources that are most often used in historical narrative construction. These errors are discussed in the sixth chapter. They do not result from any defects of the sources themselves or the shortcomings of the methodology of history, they stem from institutional and sociological factors – giving in to the social demand for fast presentation of the results of modern history analyses, as well as the axiologisation of historiographical discourse, which leads to the slackening of methodical reliability standards.
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