Mikolaj Kunicki

Mikolaj Kunicki will revise his doctoral dissertation into a book. It provides a comprehensive political biography of Boleslaw Piasecki, a prominent Polish nationalist politician, who started his career as a fascist in the 1930s and ended it as a pro-communist Catholic activist in postwar Poland. By narrowing the scale of historical observation to Piasecki’s case, the dissertation discusses the role of nationalism in Polish history and analyzes the complex entanglement of fascism, nationalism, communism and religion in 20th Century East-Central Europe. Kunicki will expand those sections that address the relationship between politics and religious faith in Piasecki’s thought and activism, examining Piasecki in connection with those nationalist and fascist politicians who made Christianity or Catholicism a core element of their doctrine.