Grzegorz Pełczyński
Studia Historica Gedanensia, Volume 7 (2016), 2016, pp. 201 - 216
https://doi.org/10.4467/23916001HG.16.010.6395Russia has invariably been associated with the Orthodox Church. Yet, on the territory of this huge country, as well as the empire which was built by its sovereigns, other movements of Christianity were also evolving. Throughout history various groups were emerging, most often called “sects” by those who wrote about them, but they had little or nothing in common with the Orthodox Church or even Christianity. They may have resulted, as it is sometimes assumed, from bogoiskatelstvo, the term to describe the characteristic of the Russians searching for God everywhere and in different ways.
Grzegorz Pełczyński
Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 2 (172), 2019 (XLV), pp. 275 - 291
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.19.024.10850In the interwar period, there were over half a million Poles in France. After the war, the communist Polish government decided to bring them back to Poland. In 1946–1949, about 70,000 people came from France to Poland. They lived mainly in Upper and Lower Silesia. They found it hard to adjust to living in Poland, with the country having been devastated during the war and being ruled by an increasingly dangerous communist regime. Some, therefore, returned to France but most of them chose to remain whilst retaining their ties with France.
Grzegorz Pełczyński
Konteksty Kultury, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2015, pp. 369 - 381
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.15.024.4437Sylwester Chęciński is famous polish director. He made three great films: “Sami swoi” (1967), “Nie ma mocnych” (1974), “Kochaj albo rzuć” (1967). This is trilogy about Pawlaks and Karguls, two family from little village from West Poland. Their history is a part of polish history. Films about Pawlaks and Karguls became a polish national myth.