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The birth of local democracy in Poland

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The 1989 revolution created an opportunity for the resurgence of a democratic state in Poland. That is why the elections for local authorities that were held on 27 May 1990 were so important. It was a first step on the road to rebuilding democracy on a local level after nearly half a century of Communist…

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A Community in print

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When Czesław Milosz arrived in Warsaw in 1981, fresh from winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, one of the visits he made, was to a private apartment, to meet with the people responsible for bringing his poems to Polish readers. From 1951, when Milosz had refused to return to Stalinist Poland, a ban had been…

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Maria Skłodowska-Curie: The Star Of Radioactivity

(7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)
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Beautiful minds. Extraordinary mathematicians from Lwów

An interview with Mariusz Urbanek, author of the book Genialni. Lwowska szkoła matematyczna (The Geniuses. Lwów School of Mathematics)
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Marian Małowist and Witold Kula: Polish leading figures of world historiography

Parallel Lives
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick