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- Title
ANTEMURALE ПОЛЬСКОЙ ИСТОРИОГРАФИИ: Оскар Халецкий о ягеллонской идее, федерализме и пограничье Запада
- Authors
КОРОЛЁВ, Геннадий
- Abstract
The article analyzes the evolution of the concept of East-Central Europe in the writings of the famous Polish historian Oskar Halecki (1891--1973), who actually developed it. This seemingly neutral, geographical notion was formulated within the context of Polish nationalist historiography operating with categories such as "Jagiellonian idea," "federalism," "Antemurale" (as in "antemurale Christianitatis" -- bulwark of Christianity), "the borderland of Western civilization," "Central Europe," and so on. "East-Central Europe" thus emerged as a claim for a "special path" of the region traditionally defined as Eastern Europe -- emancipated from Russian domination and headed by Poland as a "bulwark of Europe." This political ideal of the future informed Halecki's historical studies and evolved in his writings of the interwar and post--World War II periods.
- Subjects
EUROPE; POLAND; HALECKI, Oskar, 1891-1973; PHILOSOPHY of history; JAGELLON dynasty; FEDERAL government; CENTRAL European history; 20TH century Eastern European history; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Ab Imperio, 2015, Issue 2, p363
- ISSN
2166-4072
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/imp.2015.0037