Piotr Osęka
Biographic Data
| ID | 5844641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Osęka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Osęka |
| SIGNATURE | OSĘKA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9764-7772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”
The secret police, along with the political apparatus of a ruling party or administration, created the backbone of communist regimes and constituted the main tool of State violence. The state of the art within studies on the Polish security apparatus—albeit extremely rich—is entirely focused on archival documents. What is missing from the research on the secret police in Poland is an oral history approach. This article is a pioneer attempt at rev…
The Elites of Solidarity
The article aims at contributing to the social history of the Solidarity movement by tracing the collective biography of its elected representatives. It will focus on the life trajectories of the 900 delegates to the First National Congress of Delegates. The convention, held in Autumn 1981, is commonly perceived as a focal moment in the history of Solidarity and plays a crucial role in almost every academic narrative on the anti-communist opposit…
Dissidents and Police
This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation ’68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). March 1968 in Poland witnessed two different revolutions. The first one occurred at the universities. The students—the generation of twenty-year-olds—revolted against an oppressive, authoritarian state and demanded freedom of speech. But there was also a second, parallel revolution. It exploded with the anti-Jewish purge carr…
We Are with You, Vietnam’
Global solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles – which state socialist regimes in eastern Europe sought to inculcate in their populations from the 1950s onwards – constitutes a little studied form of modern transnational political socialization. This article explores this theme by analysing how three socialist countries – Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia – attempted to build mass solidarity with the Vietnamese in the 1960s and 1970s. First, the …
Breaking the Walls of Privacy
This article approaches the events of 1968 not—as traditionally done—by focusing on the agents of activism but rather on the spaces of their activism. Drawing from examples in Poland, Ireland and the Soviet Union, it argues that the street and square as sites of protest assumed more and more significance in the run-up to and during the events of 1968, changing both the nature of protests and the symbolic and physical nature of the spaces concerne…
We Are with You, Vietnam’
Global solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles – which state socialist regimes in eastern Europe sought to inculcate in their populations from the 1950s onwards – constitutes a little studied form of modern transnational political socialization. This article explores this theme by analysing how three socialist countries – Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia – attempted to build mass solidarity with the Vietnamese in the 1960s and 1970s. First, the …
Dissidents and Police
This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation ’68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). March 1968 in Poland witnessed two different revolutions. The first one occurred at the universities. The students—the generation of twenty-year-olds—revolted against an oppressive, authoritarian state and demanded freedom of speech. But there was also a second, parallel revolution. It exploded with the anti-Jewish purge carr…
Breaking the Walls of Privacy
This article approaches the events of 1968 not—as traditionally done—by focusing on the agents of activism but rather on the spaces of their activism. Drawing from examples in Poland, Ireland and the Soviet Union, it argues that the street and square as sites of protest assumed more and more significance in the run-up to and during the events of 1968, changing both the nature of protests and the symbolic and physical nature of the spaces concerne…
We Are with You, Vietnam’
Global solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles – which state socialist regimes in eastern Europe sought to inculcate in their populations from the 1950s onwards – constitutes a little studied form of modern transnational political socialization. This article explores this theme by analysing how three socialist countries – Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia – attempted to build mass solidarity with the Vietnamese in the 1960s and 1970s. First, the …
Dissidents and Police
This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation ’68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). March 1968 in Poland witnessed two different revolutions. The first one occurred at the universities. The students—the generation of twenty-year-olds—revolted against an oppressive, authoritarian state and demanded freedom of speech. But there was also a second, parallel revolution. It exploded with the anti-Jewish purge carr…
The Elites of Solidarity
The article aims at contributing to the social history of the Solidarity movement by tracing the collective biography of its elected representatives. It will focus on the life trajectories of the 900 delegates to the First National Congress of Delegates. The convention, held in Autumn 1981, is commonly perceived as a focal moment in the history of Solidarity and plays a crucial role in almost every academic narrative on the anti-communist opposit…
Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”
The secret police, along with the political apparatus of a ruling party or administration, created the backbone of communist regimes and constituted the main tool of State violence. The state of the art within studies on the Polish security apparatus—albeit extremely rich—is entirely focused on archival documents. What is missing from the research on the secret police in Poland is an oral history approach. This article is a pioneer attempt at rev…
Communism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)