The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice.
M. B. B. Biskupski holds the Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University. His book Polish-Jewish Relations in North American (coedited with Antony Polonsky) won the 2009 Oskar Halecki Prize of the Polish American Historical Association. His latest book is Hollywood's War with Poland. James S. Pula is a professor of history at Purdue University North Central. He was twice awarded the Polish American Historical Association's prestigious Oskar Halecki Prize for outstanding books on Polonia as well as the Mieczyslaw Haiman Award for contributions to the study of Polonia. His books include For Liberty and Justice: A Biography of Brigadier General Wlodzimierz B. Krzyzanowski, 1824-1887, Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty, and Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community. Piotr J. Wróbel holds the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has authored or coauthored about fifty scholarly articles and nine books, including The Historical Dictionary of Poland, 1945-1996 and Nation and History: Polish Historians from the Enlightenment and the Second World War, coedited with Peter Brock and John D. Stanley.
“This important book, to which many of the leading scholars of the
subject have contributed, provides a clear and accessible account
of the evolution of Polish democratic thought and of the
aspirations of the Polish people for a democratic political system
from the 1863 January Uprising to the present day. It fills a
long-felt need in the scholarship on this topic.”
“(The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy) offers a valuable and
informative overview of the history of Polish democratic ideas and
can serve as supplementary reading for introductory undergraduate
classes on Poland and eastern Europe.”
*Slavic Review*
“The presentation of Polish democratic traditions and aspirations
in this valuable study helps us understand not only the past but
also the present. Following an insightful introduction, nine
outstanding Polish, Canadian, and American historians concentrate
on developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their
views, occasionally controversial, make for rewarding and
stimulating reading. A most welcome addition to the field.”
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