Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945-1956 (Poland: Transnational Histories)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	What the book is about
	How the history of post-war Poland has been written
	How ‘virtues’ can open a new perspective on the history of public knowledge
	What is new in this book?
	Structure of the book
1. From the War to the ‘Gentle Revolution’
	Stalin’s ‘Polish Project’ and ‘Missionary-Intellectuals’
	The ‘gentle revolution’ project and the virtue of ‘progressiveness’
	Łódź as an intellectual oasis of ‘new Poland’
	‘Kuźnica’ and the ‘radical cultural programme’
	‘Scientific’ anti-authoritarianism and political ambitions of Polish sociology
	Trying to avoid isolation: Catholic groups in the intellectual landscape of Poland
	Bolesław Piasecki and ‘progressive Catholics’
2. The Many Faces of the Soviet Union
	The ‘guidelines’ of propaganda
	‘Discovering’ Russian culture in a non-Stalinist way
	Soviet scholarship as a foreign world
	The ‘friend’ and the ‘argument’: The use of the ‘Soviet Union’
3. The Teachers of Virtues: The French and the Early Post-War Project
	How are we seen? Representing Poland in France
	The French teach the Poles and vice versa
	French heroes of the Polish Catholic agenda
	Catholics ‘should’ adopt the French example
4. The Polish Intelligentsia and an Anti-Authoritarian Vision of Society
	The treason against ‘progressiveness\'
	Between nation and academia
	The anti-authoritarian vision of the ‘new’ intelligentsia
5. Between ‘Outdated’ Marxism and ‘Updated’ Catholicism
	Uncertain steps of Marxism
	‘Quasi-religion’ and ‘anti-progressive’ Marxism
	The Marxian response
	Unequal opponents: Catholics vs. Marxists
	The fragile ‘compromise’ on ‘non-reactionary’ Catholicism
6. The ‘Failed’ Quest for Unity
	The Cold War context and the tightening of the regime
	Disciplining ‘public discussions’: All roads lead to the Soviet Union
	The Wrocław Congress and the defeat of the ‘gentle revolution’
	Reshaping the public life
	An unfortunate quest for ‘concordia’
7. The School of ‘New Virtues’
	The power and powerlessness of institutions
	The missionaries of new virtues
	Fighting the ‘stubbornness’ of non-Marxist scholars
	Can a ‘non-virtuous’ scholar write a textbook?
	The headstrong ‘students’ and failed teaching
8. ‘1956’ as a ‘Diagnosis’ and ‘Prognosis’
	Losing the control over the public sphere
	The quest for honesty
	Between France and the Soviet Union, there is … Poland
	Polish academics and the fiasco of Stalinisation
	Adam Schaff and his good conscience
	Schaff’s students against Stalinist virtues
Epilogue:The Concept of Virtues as a Lens
	Virtuous battles in post-war Poland
	Looking beyond Poland
Bibliography
Index