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SOROKA Waclaw - Polish countryside in the educational problems of the nation. Sketch. [Typescript]. Cracow 1945. 4, k. [1], III, [1], 62
[and] tenże - Przez wieś do potęgi Polski. Cz. 2. Szkice. Kraków 1945. 4, k. [2], 70. broch.
Wraps partly dusty, inside good condition. At the beginning an additional page with the author's handwritten dedication to S. Kutrzeba, dated. Oct. 17, 1945 in Cracow. The author thanks the professor (then rector of the Jagiellonian University) for his help "in his scientific work and life's difficulties" and adds, "With deep respect, I offer in gratitude a collection of my thoughts from a certain period of work during the war - not because I think so well of them [...] - but because for the moment they constitute all I have." A two-part work by a prominent interwar, later émigré folk activist. Includes, among others: Perspectives on education and upbringing, Educational centers and the influence of the environment, Classism, conservatism, progress, The contemporary Polish village, Rural self-education and self-education, The platform of the meeting. The work has not been published.
W. Soroka (1917-1999) - studied law at the Catholic University of Lublin before the war, and at the Jagiellonian University after it ended. During the war years he was a soldier of the Home Army and BCh, among other things, he headed the Information Office of District IV BCh Lublin. After the war, he was active in the anti-communist underground (Wolność i Niezawisłość). In II 1945 he took up doctoral studies at the Jagiellonian University, prepared a dissertation, but did not manage to defend it. For fear of persecution, he left the country in VII 1946. He lived successively in Germany, Belgium, France and the USA. He held important positions in the structures of the PSL in exile (for example, he was a member of the PSL Supreme Council in France).
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