Volume 14, Issue 5/6, 2004
Warsaw Uprising 1944: Part One
Aleksander Gieysztor, Ewa Gieysztor
Pages 11-12
Introduction to the Conference “The Meaning of Polish History”, Royal Castle, Warsaw, November 4, 1988
The State and the nation belong to the ideas created by the common consciousness, and at the same time, as a true forma formans, have connotations to the world of predominance, influencing the reality. There exist such strong connections, that their understanding is an intellectual duty of those who research nowadays the social links and try to explain them to the contemporary audience.