Sytuacja na wschodnim pograniczu Polski w świetle raportu kontrwywiadowczego Korpusu Ochrony Pogranicza za 1936 rok by Andrzej Wawryniuk

“…The most important neighbor on this part of Second Polish Republic was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. …”
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Thematic maps in Eugeniusz Romer’s Geographical and Statistical Atlas of Poland from 1916 – the historical and methodological perspective (on the 100-year anniversary of the public... by Osowska Anna, Przybytek Dariusz

“…It was a significant decision because the atlas appeared to be crucial to establishing borders of the Second Polish Republic at the Paris Peace Conference. In 2016 the hundredth anniversary of first edition of atlas is a great occasion for a historical and methodical brief outline.…”
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Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski about Music, Work and Writing – a Writer at the Piano by Elżbieta WRÓBEL

“…The paper recalls the figure of the leading writer of the Second Polish Republic, Juliusz Kaden- Bandrowski. Alluding to his biography and his acquired musical education in his youth, it makes the point that this influenced his artistic attitude. …”
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Michała Walickiego i Juliusza Starzyńskiego „Dzieje sztuki polskiej” w II Rzeczypospolitej. Zachód, Polska, Wschód by Adam S. Labuda

“…The author examines also the question whether those issues were related to the political, social, and cultural reality of the Second Polish Republic.   …”
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A Domestic Space: The Central and Eastern Carpathians in the Polish Tourist and Local Lore Discourse, 1918–1939 by Jagoda Wierzejska

“…After the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919), that part of the Carpathian mountain range was situated in the Second Polish Republic. In contrast to the Tatras, which played the role of Polish national landscape, the Carpathians were alien to Poles in terms of ethnicity and culture. …”
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Between Usznia and Domaniów. Migrants from the Eastern Borderlands settling in the Western Lands by Natalia Jakubowska

“…After the Second World War a large group of former residents of Usznia, a small village in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic, settled down in Domaniów. The author presents the accounts of five people who participated in the relocation process. …”
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Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921 in the Discourse of the Ational Memory of the Interwar Volyn by Ruslana Davydiuk

“…Keywords: Ukrainian Revolution, Second Polish Republic, Volyn voivodeship, memorable events, military graves, academies, memorial services …”
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Society of Workers’ Housing Estates and its attempt to overcome the residential crisis in interwar Poland by Jakub Frejtag

“…All these investments exemplify a successful and far-reaching social policy of Second Polish Republic that made residential crisis manageable.…”
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“A History of Polish Art” by Michał Walicki and Juliusz Starzyński in Poland between the World Wars. The West, Poland, the East by Adam S. Labuda

“…The author examines also the question whether those issues were related to the political, social, and cultural reality of the Second Polish Republic. …”
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Projekt edukacyjny „Kresy – polskie ziemie wschodnie w XX wieku” jako przykład działań na rzecz umacniania bezpieczeństwa kulturowego by Michał Lubicz Miszewski

“…It focuses on the Borderlands of the First and Second Polish Republic, including their history and cultural heritage, as well as the Poles, both those who left this territory after the Second World War and those who live there now. …”
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PROBLEM KŁAJPEDY NA ŁAMACH WILEŃSKIEJ PRASY OBOZU NARODOWEGO W OKRESIE MIĘDZYWOJENNYM by Michał Jakubik

“…The article analyzes the information, opinions and concepts concerning the Klaipeda question, published in „Dziennik Wileński” and „Głos Narodowy” in the period of the Second Polish Republic.…”
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Prostytucja w Krakowie międzywojennym 1918–1939 by Krzysztof Kloc

“…Despite the fact that harlotry in the Second Polish Republic was legal, as long as it had been reported to the relevant institution, it was still on the moral margins of social life. …”
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The Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in the age of the Kingdom of Poland. The polemics between Father Karol Surowiecki and minister Stanisław Kostka Potocki by Rafał Szczurowski

“…Educated in the age of reason and following the assumptions of the Enlightenment, the minister was a symbol of the rational changes in the Second Polish Republic in the second half of the 18th century. …”
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Konflikty etniczne w świetle socjologii klasycznej i psychologii społecznej (na przykładzie Kresów południowo-wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej) by Renata Pomarańska

“… Ethnic conflict in the view of classical sociology and social psychology (on the example of south-eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic) The article was designed to demonstrate that social conflicts, especially ethnic ones, which belong to many factors of martyrdom. …”
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Marx’s Centenary (1918) in the Light of the Media and Socialist Thought by Christian Fuchs

“…It was the year that saw the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the start of the Russian Civil War, the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the formation of the Weimar Republic, Austria’s First Republic, the Czech Republic, the Hungarian Republic, the Second Polish Republic; the founding of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and the independence of Iceland from Denmark. …”
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Rejected Children: On Kamil Kijek’s “Dzieci modernizmu: Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w II Rzeczypospolitej” by Kornelia Sobczak

“… This article discusses Kamil Kijek’s book Dzieci modernizmu: Świadomość, kultura i socjalizacja polityczna młodzieży żydowskiej w II Rzeczypospolitej [Children of Modernism: The Consciousness, Culture and Political Socialization of Jewish Youth in the Second Polish Republic]. Using young people’s diaries which were sent to three competitions held in the 1930s by the Jewish Scientific Institute (YIVO), Kijek studies the ways young Jewish people described themselves, their visions of Jewish or Polish-Jewish identity, and the influence exerted on their attitudes and ideological choices by schooling, the activities of political youth organizations and the antisemitism of interwar Polish culture. …”
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Memories about Władysław Studnicki (scientific description M. Zakrzewski) by Stanisław Swianiewicz

“…An article by Swaniewicz was dedicated to the life of Władysław Studnicki – the most important representative of the pro-German faction during War World I and the Second Polish Republic. The article has never been published in the Polish language. …”
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The level and regional differentiation of Poland’s GDP in the interwar period by Witold Maciej Orłowski

“…The article estimates the level of GDP per capita in the Second Polish Republic in 1938, both for the entire country and for individual voivodeships. …”
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ARCHITECTURE OF AVANT-GARDE IN UKRAINE IN 1921-1939: ORIGINS, WAYS OF SPREADING, MAIN FEATURES by Olga Mykhaylyshyn

“…Volyn – a historical Ukraine region that, at that time, was part of Poland (the Second Polish Republic) – plays a special role in this context. …”
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The Attitude of Soviet Security Organs to the Home Army (July 1944 – January 1945) by Dariusz Rogut

“…According to some estimates, from January 1944 to the end of the 1940s, 80–100 thousand Poles were arrested in the territory of the Second Polish Republic, of whom several thousand were convicted (not counting Polish citizens of other nationalities). …”
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