Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 132 (2025) ; Varia

Institutional creator:

Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ; Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 151-177

Abstract:

The article focuses primarily on several problems in the broadly understood environmental history of Poland during the Stalinist period. First and foremost, it points to the category of man’s attempts to master the environment. This primarily involves plans to transform nature and implement an economic development model based on industrialisation, devised without accounting for its costs. At the opposite end of the scale came attempts to rule over the environment, which brought Poland some devastating climatic anomalies, notably floods and extreme Siberiantype winters. They had a decisive impact on human behavioural strategies, the organisation of everyday life, and even on politics. The final theme of this study examines human–animal relations from the perspective of Polish environmental history during 1945–56. The aim is to illustrate the character of these relations, the oppressive treatment of animals by humans, and the attempts to change existing practices.

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Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

132

Start page:

151

End page:

177

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:248146 ; 2450-8462 ; 0001-6829 ; 10.12775/APH.2025.132.07

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/132 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 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:

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Access:

Open