History of Poland

elementary

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Course Level: Advanced

Objectives of the course: The student acquires the knowledge of the most important historical facts concerning the past history of Poland - from medieval times to the end of the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and from the nineteenth and twentieth century to modern times against the background of European events; acquires the ability to understand and interpret historical phenomena and processes relating to the political, social, economic, political and cultural spheres; acquires skills and competences to distinguish the phenomena associated with individual and collective memory and the history as a discipline of science as well as factors binding the past and the present.

Prerequisites: The student has the knowledge gained at history classes of the secondary school

Course contents:

Lectures serve to clarify the phenomena and the historical processes, including the cause and effect process and significance of the case in history. Include presentation of key facts and events of a political, military, social, economic, religious and cultural heritage since the formation of the Polish state till the end of the eighteenth century, during the absence of statehood in the nineteenth century - including the attempt to regain independence through insurrections. Construction of a sovereign Polish state in the interwar period of the twentieth century and the German-Soviet occupation of the Second World War, the times of non-sovereign existence of the PRL (Communistic regime) and regaining the Polish independence after 1989. The lectures show the specificity of the Piast Poland, its uniqueness against the European background expreseed by its multicultural, multiethnic, multi-religious, multilingual Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The legal and structural identity of the system as it was democracy of the Polish gentry and the Polish freedom throughout history, including the phenomenon of "Solidarity".

Methods of assessment: Attendance at lectures, written exam and the reading list exam, about which students are notified at the beginning of classes.

1. A. Dybkowska, J. Żaryn, M. Żaryn, Polskie dzieje od czasów najdawniejszych do współczesności, pod red. A. Sucheni-Grabowskiej i E. C. Króla, Warszawa, różne wydania

2. S. Szczur, Historia Polski. Średniowiecze, Kraków, różne wydania

3. M. Markiewicz, Historia Polski. 1492-1795, Karków, różne wydania. U. Augustyniak, Historia Polski. 1572-1795, Warszawa 2008

wybrane lektury

5.A. Chwalba, Historia Polski.1795-1918, Kraków, różne wydania.

6.C. Brzoza, A.L.Sowa, Historia Polski. 1918-1945, Kraków, różne wydania.

7.J. Zdrada,Historia Polski. 1795-1914, Warszawa, różne wydania.