POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK KOMITET NAUK HISTORYCZNYCH INSTYTUT HISTORII Acta Poloniae Historica 118 The History of Prison Regimes in the Polish Territory in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 2018
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CONTENTS THE HISTORY OF PRISON REGIMES IN THE POLISH TERRITORY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Felix Ackermann, Territorialisation and Incarceration: The Nexus between Solitary Confinement, Religious Praxis and Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Poland and Lithuania.............. 5 Wojciech Zalewski, Double-Track System in Polish Criminal Law. Political and Criminal Assumptions, History, Contemporary References 39 Mateusz Rodak, Watchmen or Guards? The Prison Guard in the Second Polish Republic................................... 61 Anna Machcewicz, Political Prisoners in Poland, 1944 56: The Sources and Strategies of Resistance in the Authoritarian State s Prison System......................................... 93 Jiří Hanuš, Jan Zahradníček (1905 60): The Tragedy of a Poet and Prisoner of the Communist Regime..................... 127 Klára Pinerová, Prison and Society Connected. The Development of the Czechoslovak Prison System in 1945 92................. 151 Maria Buko, Female Memories of the Experience of Totalitarian Places of Isolation...................................... 183 Renata Szczepanik and Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko, Don t Look Back, You Thief!. Violence towards Convicted Criminals in Prisons in the Last Decade of Communist Poland................. 207 Grzegorz Kudlak and Mateusz Zimny, Aid Organisations and Prison Ministry in Communist Poland and Their Role in the Resocialisation of Prisoners after 1980.............................. 237 ARCHIVE Preface by Anna Machcewicz............................ 271 Zofia Moczarska and Kazimierz Moczarski s Prison Letters, 1946 56. A Selection............................. 277
4 Contents REVIEWS Mikołaj Getka-Kenig and Aleksander Łupienko (eds.), Architektura w mieście. Architektura dla miasta. Społeczne i kulturowe aspekty funkcjonowania architektury na ziemiach polskich lat 1815 1914 [Architecture in the City, Architecture for the City: Social and Cultural Aspects of Functioning of Architecture in the Polish Lands, 1815 1915] Urszula Bęczkowska; Frank Hadler and Matthias Middell (eds.), Handbuch einer transnationalen Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas, vol. 1: Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg Maciej Górny; Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, Iwona Kurz, and Paweł Rodak (eds.), Ekspozycje nowoczesności. Wystawy a doświadczanie procesów modernizacyjnych w Polsce (1821 1929) [Exhibitions of Modernity. Exhibitions and the Experience of Modernisation Processes in Poland, 1821 1929] Marta Michalska; Aneta Prymaka-Oniszk, Bieżeństwo 1915. Zapomniani uchodźcy [Beženstvo/Refugeedom 1915. The Forgotten Refugees] Łukasz Mieszkowski; Robert Blobaum, A Minor Apocalypse: Warsaw during the First World War Maciej Górny; Pavel Kolář, Der Poststalinismus. Ideologie und Utopie einer Epoche Marcin Wolniewicz; Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak (eds.), Memory and Change in Europe. Eastern Perspectives Cristina Álvarez González; Paweł Machcewicz, Muzeum [Museum] Stephan Stach......................... 309 SHORT NOTES....................................... 353 CHRONICLE Materials about Prisons in the Polish Territories in the Fund of the Main Prison Administration of the Russian Empire Alla Morozova....................................... 409 Theory and Practice: Religion, Work, Sex and Statehood in Polish Prison History Felix Ackermann................... 451 Contributors........................................ 453
CONTRIBUTORS Felix Ackermann urban historical anthropology; research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw; e-mail: ackermann@dhi.waw.pl Cristina Álvarez González contemporary history; research fellow at Universidad para los Mayores (Universidad Complutense de Madrid); e-mail: cris.alvarezgonzalez@gmail.com Urszula Bęczkowska architecture and its theory from mid-18th till early 20th c.; assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University; e-mail: ulisia2@wp.pl Maria Buko oral history of war experience, transgenerational memory of war trauma; PhD student at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw; History Meeting House in Warsaw; e-mail: m.buko@dsh.waw.pl Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko rehabilitation pedagogy; assistant at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Łódź; PhD student at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź; e-mail: angelika.cieslikowska@uni.lodz.pl Maciej Górny 19th- and 20th-century history; professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw; e-mail: jmgorny@gmail.com Jiří Hanuš Czech recent history and literature; professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Masaryk University, Brno; e-mail: jirh1963@gmail.com Grzegorz Kudlak penitentiary and clinical psychology, psychotherapy, addiction treatment in prison conditions; assistant professor at the Deviation Psychology Department of the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw; e-mail: grzegorz.kudlak@uw.edu.pl Anna Machcewicz Stalinist penal system in Poland and in East Central Europe; everyday life in prisons; prisoners of conscience; assistant professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; e-mail: machcewicz@poczta.onet.pl Marta Michalska Victorian England, nineteenth-century urban studies, social history; PhD Candidate at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw; e-mail: mart.m.michalska@gmail.com
Łukasz Mieszkowski 20th-century history; PhD student at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences; e-mail: lukasz.mieszkowski@outlook.com Alla Morozova senior researcher at the Institute of Russian History in Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences; e-mail: allamorozova1992@gmail.com Klára Pinerová prison system in Czechoslovakia and GDR, anti-communist resistance; researcher at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague; e-mail: klara.pinerova@ustrcr.cz Mateusz Rodak 20th-century Polish social history, underworld of the Second Polish Republic; professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences; e-mail: mateuszrodak@yahoo.pl Stephan Stach 20th-century history; research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; e-mail: stach@usd.cas.cz Renata Szczepanik oral history, convict criminology, deviant behaviour in prisons, rehabilitation pedagogy; professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Łódź, e-mail: renata.szczepanik@uni.lodz.pl Marcin Wolniewicz 19th-century history; assistant professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences; e-mail: marcin_wolniewicz@o2.pl Wojciech Zalewski material criminal law, criminology; professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk; e-mail: wojciech.zalewski@prawo.ug.edu.pl Mateusz Zimny history of the Church in the Middle Ages, iconography, 20th-century history of Poland; PhD student at the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow; e-mail: matzimny@gmail.com