Section for the History of Diplomacy and Totalitarian Systems

Head: Professor Marek Kornat

Professor Agnieszka Cieślik
Professor Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska – Section Secretary
Dr Magdalena Hułas
Professor Tadeusz Kondracki
Professor Grzegorz Kucharczyk
Dr Paweł Libera
Professor Marek Ney-Krwawicz
Professor Mariusz Wołos

Cooperators:
Dr Bartosz Dziewianowski-Stefańczyk
Doc. Gennadii Korolov
Dr Cezary Lusiński
Dr hab. Rafał Łatka
Dr Jolanta Mysiakowska-Muszyńska
Dr Jarosław Suchoples
Dr Wiktor Węglewicz

Doktoranci:
Paulina Chrząszcz, MA (SD Anthropos)
Ewa Cuber-Strutyńska, MA
Piotr Siewak, MA (SD Anthropos)

RESEARCH WORK OF THE SECTION

Collective work:

1. Professor Marek Kornat and Professor Mariusz Wołos – a political biography of Minister Józef Beck (statutory funds of IH PAN) and preparation of the edition of documents for the study of Polish–Soviet relations in 1918–1945 (project coordinated by the Centre for Polish–Russian Dialogue and Understanding, submitted as a grant project to NCN);

2. research and editorial work on the Minutes of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland in 1918–1923 (grant project funded by NPRH). Participants: Professor Marek Kornat, Professor Mariusz Wołos, Professor Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska and Dr Paweł Libera. The project leader is Professor Marek Kornat.

Individual projects:

Professor Marek Kornat: a) a biographical study on Józef Lipski, Polish ambassador to Berlin, and his political activity (statutory funds of IH PAN, co-funded by the Foundation for Polish–German Cooperation); b) edition of the correspondence between Witold Jedlicki and Jerzy Giedroyc in 1961–1982 (statutory funds of IH PAN); c) a study on the interpretation of totalitarian systems in Polish research and political thought in the interwar period (statutory funds of IH PAN);

Professor Mariusz Wołos: a) a biography of Kazimierz Piątek (statutory funds of IH PAN);

Professor Marek Ney-Krwawicz: a) a monograph entitled The Daily Life of Home Army Soldiers 1939–1945; b) a monograph The Military and Political Personnel of the Underground State during World War II (statutory funds of IH PAN);

Professor Agnieszka Cieślik: a) a biographical study of a Polish air attaché during the Second World War, Colonel Bogdan Kwieciński; b) an anthology of the publications of the magazine “Czarno na Białem”; c) a monograph on various social attitudes towards the development of technology in the first quarter of the 20th century: Taming Modernity (statutory funds of IH PAN);

Professor Tadeusz Kondracki: a) an edition of sources for the study of veterans in Poland in the 1980s (statutory funds of IH PAN).

Professor Małgorzata Gmurczyk-Wrońska: a) the monograph “Poland–France: Political Relations (1919–1921) (statutory funds of IH PAN); b) preparation of a volume of minutes of meetings of the Council of Ministers of the Second Republic of Poland during the Leopold Skulski and Władysław Grabski governments (part of the NPRH grant project “Minutes of meetings of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland, 1918–1923”); c) a biography of the lawyer and diplomat Stanisław Patek (1886–1944);

Dr Magdalena Hułas: a) a monograph on Britain’s mechanisms of decision-making in foreign policy during World War II; b) a monograph on the functioning and liquidation of Polish diplomatic missions during World War II (statutory funds of IH PAN);

Dr Paweł Libera: a) the Polish edition of documents (already published in print in Lithuanian) for the study of Polish–Lithuanian relations in 1938–1940; b) an edition of materials of the security authorities of the Second Republic concerning the members of the Sejm and Senate of the second term (1922–1928); c) preparation of a biographical study on Józef Łobodowski for print (statutory funds of IH PAN).