Archival Scroll: Polish Studies at the University of Virginia

• Formerly Offered Courses
• Visiting Professors

  Formerly Offered Courses

  HIEU 240 History of Poland in the 19th and 20th Century

  COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will cover major twists and turns of Polish history from the decline of the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, through partitions and national risings of the 19th century, the Second Republic, World War Two, Communist Poland and recent systemic transformation. Its aim is to give basic understanding of the complexity of Polish identity at the end of the 20th century.
  COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Roszkowski W.

  
  

  HIEU 308 Poland in the 20th Century @

  COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the complicated twists and turns of Polish history in the 20th Century, from the partitions, through the First World War, reconstruction of the independent Second Republic, the Second World War, Sovietization and Communist rule, "solidarity" and the collapse of communism to the beginnings of systemic transformation after 1989. The question of continuity of historical development in Poland will be discussed along with some other controversial topics, such as ethnic relations on Polish territories, legacy of communist-style modernization, or the role of the "gentle crowd" in the fall of communism.
  COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Roszkowski W.

  Former Visiting Professors

  Roszkowski, Wojciech 2000-2002 Holder of the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, Univedrsity of Virginia. @

  Ph.D., Central School of Planning and Statistics, 1978
  D. Hab., Central School of Planning and Statistics, Warsaw, 1987
  Phone: (48-22) 25-52-21 / Fax: (48-22) 25-21-46 / E-Mail: . . .
  MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern Polish and East Central European history. State sector in Poland, large estate economy in Polish agriculture. POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
  VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

  • Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies holder, University of Virginia, 2000-2002
  • Fellow - The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1988-89
  • Researcher - Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1985-86

  COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH

  • History of Poland in the 19th and 20th Century
  • Poland in the 20th Century

  BOOKS

  • Changing Rules. Polish Political and Economic Transformation in Comparative Perspective (ed. with Holmes, L.T., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1997
  • Landowners in Poland 1918-1939, Boulder, Colorado, East European Monographs, No 299, 1991.

  PUBLICATIONS

  • "Our Common Orphanage. History in Postcommunist Poland", Periphery, 1997, No 1-2, p. 26-29
  • "Nationalism in East Central Europe: Old Wine in New Bottles?" (in:) Paul Latawski (ed.), Contemporary Nationalism in East Central Europe, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), p. 13-24
  • "Polish-Lithuanian Relations: Past and Present" (in:) Peter Krueger (ed.), Ethnicity and Nationalism. Case Studies in Their Intrinsic Tension and Political Dynamism, (Marburg: Hitzeroth, 1993), p. 47-59
  • "The Reconstruction of the Government and State Apparatus in the Second Polish Republic" (in:) Paul Latawski (ed.), The Reconstruction of Poland 1914-1923, (London: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 158-177
  • "Economic Effects of Land Reforms in Interwar Poland and Other East European Countries" (in:) John Lampe (ed.), Private Agriculture in Eastern Europe, (Washington D.C.: Wilson Center, 1992), pp. 65-81
  • "Uniformity or Diversity? Central-Eastern Europe Before and After 1945", Estudios Latinoamericanos (Warsaw), Vol. 14/I, 1992, p. 49-64
  • "Land Reforms in East Central Europe After World War I", Estudios Latinoamericanos (Warsaw), Vol 14/II, 1992, p. 213-242
  • "Kolyma", Przeglad Powszechny, 1990, No 1, pp. 7-23
  • "The Growth of the State Sector in the Polish Economy in the Years 1918-1926", The Journal of European Economic History, 1989, No 1, pp. 105-126
  • "Large Estates and Small Farms in the Polish Agrarian Economy between the Wars (1918-1939)", The Journal of European Economic History, 1987, No 1, pp. 75-88
  • "Poland's Economic Performance between the Two World Wars", East European Quarterly, 1986, No 20, pp. 285-297

  AFFILIATION IN POLAND: Director, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

  
  
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