State, Society and Intelligentsia

Janusz Zarnowski, Institute of History, Poland

Contents: Preface; State and Society in East-Central Europe, 19th-20th Centuries : Remarques sur l'évolution de l'idée nationale et de la conscience nationale en Pologne aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles; The role of Polish culture in the Polish nation's liberation strivings; The emergence of the system of national states in Central Europe (1918); L'Europe de Versailles, 1918-1923. Nationalités et securité collective; Arbeiter und Nationalismus in Polen vom Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges bis in die Gegenwart; Authoritarian systems in Central and South-Eastern Europe (1918-1939): analogies and differences; Fascist systems and authoritarian regimes - their basic features; East-central Europe as a periphery of 'genuine Europe'? Social Structure and the Intelligentsia in Modern Poland: Social structure of Poland, 1918-1939; Social inequalities in 20th-century Poland; The Polish intelligentsia between the intellectual élite and the middle class - typicality and peculiarity of the Polish social stratum; The historical role of the intelligentsia in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe; The old and the new rôles of the intelligentsia in Poland; Learned professions in Poland, 1918-1939; Techniques et civilisation dans la Pologne d'entre-deux-guerres 1918-1939; The impact of new technology on cultural life in Poland, 1918-1939; Die Folgewirkungen von Krieg und Okkupation und die Entwicklung der sozialen Klassen in Polen 1945-1948; Sozialgeschichte in Polen (with Anna Zarnowska); Index.