Title:

Degrees in Revolution and for the Revolution’s Sake: The Educational Experience of Polish Communists before 1939

Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 123 (2021), In Memory of Professor Jerzy W. Borejsza

Creator:

Bertram, Łukasz

Institutional creator:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2021

Description:

p. 215-237

Subject and Keywords:

communism - Poland - 1900-1945 ; Communist Party of Poland (Komunistyczna Partia Polski) ; communism and education - Poland ; socialization - Poland - 1900-1945 ; habitus (sociology) ; cultural capital

Abstract:

This paper identifies the most significant patterns of educational experience among members of the interwar Polish communist movement. The first part of the article covers the experiences that communists shared with other representatives of the social strata from which they originated: the reproduction of the social structure or their overcoming of it in the form of social advancement. It also discusses the importance of educational barriers and opportunities as factors facilitating the emergence of attitudes of radical contestation of the socio-political order. The second part identifies educational experiences that were directly related to involvement in an illegal, subversive and repressed political current, and the diverse, sometimes paradoxical consequences of that involvement for representatives of different social strata. It traces the transformations of the communist habitus and proposes the concept of ‘clandestine white-collar workers’. The article concludes that there were two patterns in the pursuit of education among the communists: acquiring a degree in revolution or for the sake of the revolution.

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Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

123

Start page:

215

End page:

237

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

0001-6829 ; 2450-8462 ; 10.12775/APH.2021.123.08

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/123 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.296/123 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Programme for the Development of the Humanities

Access:

Open