As the Years Passed, With the Flow of Events. A review of Glimpses of the Country side: One Hundred Years of Polish Countryside by Andrzej Rosner, Ruta Śpie wak, Edyta Kozdroń

• Autorzy: Marcin Makowiecki
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A book has recently been published in Poland the social importance of which may be as significant as the famous picture by Chris Niedental titled Apocalypse Now, which was taken on the first day of martial law - December 13, 1981. The book - a photo album Glimpses of the Countryside: One Hundred Years of Polish Countryside, issued by Polish Academy of Sciences' Institute of Rural and Agricult ural Development (IRWiR PAN) is a valuable contribution to Polish culture and science. Authentic photographs found in the archives and other sources, also private ones, show the life of rural inhabitants in 20th-century Poland. The picture we see is true and genuine: everyday toil, happiness and sadness of life of not only peasant families, but also whole rural communities, captured during big historic events - wars, resettlements, land reforms, as well as the evolution of farming structures, production and technology. Nearly every picture in the album is a document, i.e. it has a cognitive value, it develops the knowledge of the past, of the time of which little is known to us today, or which we interpret wrongly.(fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Review; Rural areas

PL

Recenzja; Obszary wiejskie

• Czasopismo: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Rocznik: 2019
• Numer: nr 3 (184)
• Strony: 139--142

Twórcy

autor

Marcin Makowiecki

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7366/wir032019/07