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Orthodox Russophile trend and the national Ukrainian (Greek Catholic) trend during the period of Galician autonomy. The other important subject raised in the monograph is the attitude of the Greek Catholic Church to socialist and radical movements and the participation of clergymen in the life of rural population. The author has based her book mainly on sources kept in Ukrainek Central State Historical Archives in Lviv, the Stefanyk (former Ossolineum) Library and in Viennese archives (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Allgemeines Verwaltung-sarchiv). She dcvotes much space to prescnting the literaturę dcaling with this subject. (OL)

TWENTIETH CENTURY

Joanna Goszczyńska (ed.), Procesy autoidentyfikacji na obszarze kultur środkowoeuropejskich po roku 1918 [Post-1918 Self-identification Processes in the Area of Central- European Cultures], Warszawa 2008, Instytut Slawistyki Zachodniej i Południowej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 386 pp., sum. in English

This volumc of studies edited by Joanna Goszczyńska contains over twenty papers on self-identification processes in Central Europę. They werc read at a scientific conference which was organized by the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Philology at the University of Warsaw in 2007. The papers were written by scholars from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Most papers deal with debates on national identity or with the national consciousness of the Czechs and Slovaks during the inter-war period. Although the authors based their research mainly on literaturę, their reflections may inspire all persons intcrested in an analysis of the past and in the social history of that part of Europę.

The central question in the Czech debates was the role which culture and history had played in national identification. Aftcr World War II essays on this subject were written by Kareł Ćapek, Milan Kundera and Bohumil Hrabal. In the articlc ‘Misto pro Jonathana or Czech Contemporary Essays about Czech Attempts to Find Their Place in Europę’, Dorota Bielec emphasizes that in their attempts to build Czech national identity the Czechs always referred to West European culture and denied eastern influence, cspecially that of Russia. In an article ‘A Choice to Make — Projects on Masculinity Models in Czech War Literaturę after 1918’ Marcin Filipowicz analyzes the expericnces of World War I and its influence on masculinity patterns in Czech literaturę. The author tries to find a correlation between changes in the masculinity pattern and the emergence of Czech national consciousness. The articles are in Polish. Each of them is followed by a summary in English. Unfortunately, the book provides no information on the authors. (OL)