Imperia, narody i społeczeństwa Europy Wschodniej i Środkowej na progu I Wojny Światowej
The previously prevailing paradigm of research into the Polish history in the years of World War I focused on strictly political and military aspects of Poland’s path to independence.
The texts, which address issues such as Soviet roundups and the Volhynia massacre, are mostly based on archival materials that were until recently inaccessible or unused. Their reading will allow readers to become acquainted with new findings or new interpretations of the Sovietization process in Central and Eastern Europe.
"The methodology proposed in the research project—due to the macro scale of the phenomena being studied—must be interdisciplinary in nature. (...) Only by combining these diverse methodological perspectives does it seem possible to conduct a more insightful analysis of the multiple changes that occurred in the minds of the people living in Central and Eastern Europe as a result of the shocks of the First World War. (...) As we embark on this kind of analysis, a sort of 'photograph' of the state of social imaginations, political plans, cultural identities, and their transformations on the eve of the Great War, we present here a monographic collection of studies with that meaning and purpose in mind," writes Professor Andrzej Nowak in the introduction.
This publication is the result of work within the research project Relations between Soviet Power and the Polish Underground State: 1943–1946.