Professor Piotr H. Kosicki Wins W. Glenn Campbell And Rita Ricardo-Campbell Hoover National Fellowship
April 24, 2014
Piotr H Kosicki is a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow for 2014–2015 at the Hoover Institution. He also received the 2014-15 Distinguished Fellowship of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre...
Between Christ and Lenin: A European History of Poland, Catholicism, and the Social Question, 1891-1991
My project follows several generations of Polish Catholic activists – from less familiar fin-de-siècle writers and revolutionaries through celebrated Cold Warriors like Karol Wojtyła, who in 1978 became Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who in 1989 became the first non-Communist Polish prime minister since World War II – as they made contacts, circulated writings, and built institutional networks not only across Eastern Europe, but indeed across the European continent and beyond its boundaries. Understood transnationally, their story illuminates Catholicism’s confrontation with socialism and communism, beginning with Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 call for a Catholic social doctrine and ending with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. My book will make clear that, on the one hand, Polish Catholicism substantially shaped European intellectual, political, and social life in the 20th century, and, on the other, it helped to drive the 20th-century globalization of Roman Catholicism.