National Humanities Development Program, call: Fundaments 13
Project no. NPRH/F/SP/0007/2024/13
Principal investigator: prof. dr hab. Cezary Kuklo
amount awarded: 1 055 768 PLN
project duration: 2024-2027
Co-investigators:
- Marcin Danielewski
- Krzysztof Fokt
- Piotr Guzowski
- Tadeusz Janicki
- Małgorzata Kołacz-Chmiel
- Michał Kopczyński
- Jaśmina Korczak-Siedlecka
- Monika Kozłowska-Szyc
- Cezary Kuklo
- Marcin Markiewicz
- Włodzimierz Mędrzecki
- Grzegorz Miernik
- Piotr Miodunka
- Bartosz Ogórek
- Piotr Pomianowski
- Radosław Poniat
- Mikołaj Szołtysek
- Ewelina Szpak
- Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk
- Mateusz Wyżga
- Tomasz Związek
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The aim of the project is to create an inter-university team gathering the most outstanding contemporary researchers of the history of the rural population and to prepare a modern synthesis of the history of Polish peasants from the beginning of our statehood until 1989. Recent years have brought a number of scientific or popular science works written in the convention of so-called folk histories. Their authors, most often cultural anthropologists, sociologists, culture experts and philosophers, not knowing the workshop and methodology of historical research, as well as sources, created an image of the plebeian population in the old Polish period and the partitions without taking into account the achievements of historiography, and even in opposition to its achievements. These publications fit into the currently fashionable discourse on the slave population, creating a vision of the past heavily burdened with stereotypes, myths, embellished with old, Marxist historical literature from the Stalinist period. Meanwhile, the achievements of over 30 years of independent Polish historiography include hundreds of works: monographs (also written for a degree), thematic syntheses and articles of a monographic and contributory nature, describing the history of this most numerous social group in the history of the country in a modern way and free from the class struggle paradigm that has been in force for years. The project will create a modern, fully scientific work, summarizing the current state of knowledge, constituting a synthesis of the latest research with the undoubted achievements of the pre-war historical schools of Franciszek Bujak and Jan Rutkowski and valuable later achievements, well-founded in sources, although requiring thorough reinterpretation. The book will be addressed to scientists, but it should also reach a wider circle of history lovers and hobbyists. It will replace the existing, important, but in many parts already outdated synthetic studies bearing the mark of the political atmosphere of the Polish People's Republic and meeting the expectations of the authorities of the time (Tymieniecki 1965-69; Z dziejów 1968, Inglot 1970-80).
