"Kultura" and Its Forgotten University in Exile

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dc.contributor.authorDurin-Hornyik, Veronika
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T12:00:12Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T12:00:12Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractInstytut Literacki Kultura (ILK) was the core of anti-communist resistance during the Cold War: it promoted independent political thought and understanding among central and eastern European countries while showing resilience against Communist regimes. Although ILK is mostly known for its monthly exile magazine Kultura, edited in Polish, its founder-editor Jerzy Giedroyc had anticipated another project in addition to a Literary Institute after the war. Foreseeing a long period of exile because of the Soviet occupation of Poland, he envisioned setting up a university for young Poles. His idea, which was delayed a few years because of the beginning of the Cold War, developed into a project with Józef Czapski to create a university for young refugees fleeing their communist countries from behind the Iron Curtain. After three years of preparation within ILK, the Free Europe University in Exile and its study center, Collège de l’Europe libre, were established in 1951 under the auspices of the American anti-communist organization National Committee for a Free Europe, yet Giedroyc and Czapski were excluded from its activities. The aim of this article is to trace the history of this essentially unknown initiative of the Polish exile group using archival holdings in Europe and the United States, and to highlight its importance within ILK.
dc.identifier.citation"The Exile History Review", 2023, No. 2, pp. 165-187
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/ehr.16815
dc.identifier.issn2956-4336
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7515
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKUL Publishing House
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectKultura
dc.subjectJerzy Giedroyc
dc.subjectrefugee students
dc.subjectuniversity in exile
dc.subjectNational Committee for a Free Europe
dc.subjectresearch
dc.subjectarchives
dc.title"Kultura" and Its Forgotten University in Exile
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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