Storia della Polonia
Alessandro Ajres L’ultimo secolo ha visto la rinascita di una nazione polacca indipendente, costretta a confrontarsi con i potenti Stati ai suoi confini, Germania e Russia. Dopo il devastante secondo conflitto mondiale e lo sterminio della sua numerosa comunità ebraica, la Polonia orbita nell’area di influenza sovietica durante la Guerra fredda per poi avvicinarsi, negli anni successivi alla caduta del Muro di Berlino, alle...
Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century
Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge 2020) Exploring republican ideas and concepts that developed in sixteenth-century Poland under the impact of humanism and the Renaissance, as well as political and constitutional changes, this is a landmark study of republican discourse in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania. It provides a conceptual and contextual analysis of the rich political...
Italia e Polonia (1919-2019)
venerdì dalle ore 18:00 alle 19:30 Istituto Polacco di Roma Via Colonna, 1, 00193 Roma Presentazione del volume “Italia e Polonia (1919-2019). Un meraviglioso viaggio insieme lungo cento anni” (Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego WUW, 2019), a cura di Jerzy Miziolek e in collaborazione con Roberto Cincotta e Barbara Rejmak. Con la partecipazione di: S.E. Anna Maria Anders, Ambasciatore della Repubblica di Polonia a Roma S.E....
Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland
Sabrina P. Ramet, Kristen Ringdal, Katarzyna Dośpiał-Borysiak (eds.) Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland. Value Transformation, Education, and Culture (Budapest-New York: CEU Press, 2019). Poland, like many societies across the world, is becoming more polarized in diverse areas of life, as contending forces seek to advance incompatible agendas. The polarization over values in Polish politics was evident already before communism...
Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
Sabrina Ramet Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity, examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they...
