The standard account of human social understanding is that we understand people’s behaviour in terms of their mental states. The ability to reason about mental states has been called a Theory of Mind (Premack & Woodruff, ...

The picture of the battle of Grunwald presented in the Polish history textbooks, from those published during the partitions through the interwar textbooks to the post-war ones and those used after the educational reform ...

After 1989 in Poland, the only area of social life which did not experience major shock and rapid change was the Polish educational system. The new authorities, busy carrying out economic and then social reforms, did not ...

The main aim of the analysis is to identify and define the various trends of Catholicism in contemporary Poland, and demonstrate how these divisions are visible on the pages of the Catholic press in the context of ...

The aim of this article is an attempt at analysing the socio-political attitudes of the academic community in Krakow in the period from the lifting of martial law in July 1983 to December 1988. Across Poland, those were ...

The Polish People’s Republic can be divided into five basic stages of rebuilding the system of local government and administration, for which the boundary years were 1944, 1950, 1958, 1972 and 1983. The reforms carried ...

Special services are an area of interest in different environments whose evaluation is not always objective. Obtaining knowledge of policies behind the tasks implemented by these services as well as their structures and ...

The process of modernization must take into account the territorial balance. Therefore, considering the modernization of Poland in the years 1945–1989, this paper presents the regional and local specificities of the ...

The banking system in the Polish communist period was closely associated with programme assumptions of the centrally planned economy. Banks did not serve their normal role. Their functioning was not for profit, which is ...

Unsuccessful attempts to implement serial production of domestic car constructions (CWS) and lorries (SPA) caused further search for licence-providers interested in starting automobile manufacturing in Poland. Thus the ...