Title:

History and Numerology. Polish Historiography after 1989 and an Outlook for the Future

Subtitle:

Střed : časopis pro mezioborová studia středni Evropy 19. a 20. stoleti R. 14 č. 1 (2022) ; Centre : journal for interdisciplinary studies of Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries Vol. 14 no. 1 (2022)

Creator:

Górny, Maciej (1976– )

Institutional creator:

Akademie věd České republiky. Masarykův ústav a Archiv

Publisher:

Masarykűv ústav a Archiv Akademie věd ČR

Place of publishing:

Praha

Date issued/created:

2022

Description:

p. 76-89 ; The publication was produced within the framework of the bilateral project "Czechoslovak-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in the Cold War Between High Politics and Individual Strategies" co-financed by the National Science Center (OPUS 2020/39/I/HS3/03589) ; Available also: ; click here to follow the link

Subject and Keywords:

parametrization of science ; Polish historiography ; politics of history ; Holocaust research

Abstract:

The article comments on main trends in Polish historiography of the last 30 or so years. The author verifies predictions concerning said trends that had been made in the first years of the new millennium, to conclude that they proved too optimistic in some respects. Problems such as political instrumentalization of history loom large over Polish historiography and may distort its future development. Furthermore, the simplistic understanding of parametrization manifested by the last (2022) evaluation of academic institutions, further reduces freedom of research while it does nothing to eliminate political pressures on historians. In essence, the policy of science pursued by the Polish state does very little to support original research.

Relation:

Střed (Praha)

Volume:

14

Issue:

1

Start page:

76

End page:

89

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Resource Identifier:

1803-9243 ; 10.54681/c.2022.1.4

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

National Science Center

Access:

Open