The German Historical Institute Warsaw has launched a new book series: Poland: Transnational Histories. The project is a cooperation with the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. On our Youtube channel, you will get to know the authors and learn about their works. For more information about the series, please have a look at our website.
The first volume is Alexej Lochmatow’s book "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956". It explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The book is a study on the history of public knowledge and scholarship under Soviet domination. Using the concept of “virtues” as the analytic framework, the author invites us to take a fresh and more nuanced look at the process of Sovietisation in Central and Eastern Europe.
In this first video, Alexej explains the notion of “virtue” and how it became an analytical instrument for the history of knowledge: Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland I