Constraints on Professional Power in Soviet-Type Society: Insights from the Solidarity Period in Poland

Also CSST Working Paper #13.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51139/1/371.pd

Catholic Power and Catholicism as a Component of Modern Polish National Identity, 1863-1918

The Donald W. Treadgold Papers publication series was created to honor a great teacher and scholar. Donald W. Treadgold was professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington from 1949 to 1993. During that time he wrote seven books, on of which - Twentieth Century Russia - went into eight editions. He was twice editor of Slavic Review, the organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and received the AAASS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies, as well as the AAASS Award for Destinguished Service. Professor Treadgold molded several generations of Russian historians and contributed enormously to the field of Russian history. He was, in other ways as well, an inspiration to all who knew him. The Treadgold Papers series was created in 1993 on the occaision of Professor Treadgold's retirement, on the initiative of Professor Daniel Waugh. Professor Treadgold passed away in December 1994. The series is dedicated to the memory of a great man, publishing papers in those areas which were close to his heart

Church, nation, and state in Poland: Catholicism and national identity formation in the Lublin region, 1918-1939.

This dissertation examines how the position of Catholicism as a component of Polish national identity changed between 1918 and 1939 and, more broadly, between 1863 and 1939. I focus on the borderland Lublin region, an area where the changing role of religion in nation and state building in early twentieth century Poland and Eastern Europe was especially visible. I argue that in the late nineteenth century the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Poland began to progressively and consciously use the Polish nation (construed as a community of shared language and culture) as a vehicle to maintain its authority in a society increasingly exposed to European liberalism, socialism and secularism. In independent Poland after 1918, the Church even more fervently attempted to couple Catholicism with Polish culture. In this effort, the Church inserted into the rhetoric of Polish-Catholic cultural identity political messages about the alleged negative impact of non-Poles and non-Catholics on the Polish nation and state. In the Lublin region after 1918, the Church also attempted to maintain social authority by coupling Catholicism with the Polish nation. Here, Church authority was resisted by the impoverished peasantry who saw the clergy as allied with the landowners; however, the association of Catholicism with Polishness on a strictly cultural level did increase. By the mid-1930s the long-constructed Polish-Catholic cultural identity was given political focus by the Sanacja regime. The pacification of radical peasants in the Zamosc area in 1936, a sharp rise in anti-Semitism, and the liquidation of superfluous Orthodox churches in 1938 were expressions of the penetration of this politicized Polish-Catholic cultural identity from the national level to the Lublin region by the end of the 1930s. By cooperating with these actions, Bishop Fulman and the clergy in the Lublin region showed that they welcomed this politicization. Local society was increasingly pressured to give up its autonomy for an imposed state culture. The dissertation is based on documents from the Lublin State Archive, the Archive of the Lublin Archdiocese and the Central Military Archive. A key source was heretofore unutilized minutes of interwar Lublin diocese deanery conferences.Ph.D.European historyPhilosophy, Religion and TheologyReligious historySocial SciencesSocial structureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129726/2/9610229.pd

Otrzymywanie i właściwości mieszanin polimerowych na bazie odpadów z wykładzin samochodowych

This paper presents the results of the mechanical recycling of post-production automotive coverings. Shredded carpet waste was used to obtain new systems based on thermoplastic polymer materials, in this case linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). As automotive carpet waste, we used a material composed mainly from polyamide 6, chalk, polypropylene. Optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy characterized the structure of both the automotive lining and finished materials. The dependence of the mechanical properties and thermo-oxidative stability on the mutual content of the components was investigated.Przedstawiono wyniki prac własnych dotyczących mechanicznego recyklingu poprodukcyjnych wykładzin samochodowych. Rozdrobnione odpady wykładzinowe użyto do otrzymania układów na bazie tworzywa termoplastycznego, w tym wypadku liniowego polietylenu małej gęstości (LLDPE). W charakterze odpadów wykładzin samochodowych zastosowano materiał, w którego składzie występują głównie poliamid 6, kreda i polipropylen. Metodami mikroskopii optycznej oraz skaningowej mikroskopii elektronowej (SEM) scharakteryzowano strukturę zarówno wykładziny samochodowej, jak i nowo wytworzonych materiałów. Zbadano zależność właściwości mechanicznych oraz stabilności termooksydacyjnej od udziału poszczególnych składników