Catholics on the barricades: Poland, France, and "revolution", 1891-1956
This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyła, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland’s Communist regime. Seeking to change the...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT London
Yale University Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | The Yale-Hoover series on authoritarian regimes
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
France
/ Poles
/ Catholicism
/ Communism
/ History 1891-1956
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| Further subjects: | B
Poland
B Communism and religion B Church and state B Bibliography |
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| Summary: | This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyła, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle Poland’s Communist regime. Seeking to change the way we understand the Catholic Church, World War II, the Cold War, and communism, this study centers on the idea of “revolution.” It examines two crucial countries, France and Poland, while challenging conventional wisdom among historians and introducing innovations in periodization, geography, and methodology. Why has much of Eastern Europe gone back down the road of exclusionary nationalism and religious prejudice since the end of the Cold War? Piotr H. Kosicki helps to understand the crises of contemporary Europe by examining the intellectual world of Roman Catholicism in Poland and France between the Church's declaration of war on socialism in 1891 and the demise of Stalinism in 1956. |
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| ISBN: | 0300225512 |