IPN published the book “Antycommunism of Nationalists”

In 2025, the Institute of National Memory published the book “Anticommunism of Nationalists. Political organizations of the National Movement towards Communists and Communism in the Second Republic (1918–1939). origin extracts’.

The publication was created under the technological editorial board of Jolanta Mysiakowskia-Muszyńska, Karol Sacevicz, Krzysztof Kaczmarski, Wojciech J. Muszyński and Rafał Sierchuji. The edition is printed and electronic, available in direct sales of IPN and in selected bookstores. The book has 456 pages and has been fitted with a critical camera.

The publication presents unknown or hard-to-access sources concerning the relation between national organisations in Poland and communism. The collected materials come from various archives, including publications, resolutions, parliamentary speeches, appeals, communications from political organizations and press articles. The editors developed them with the principles of technological editing, allowing both researchers and readers curious in past to usage them as reliable origin material.

The National Movement in the Second Republic, centered around the National Party, and later besides organizations specified as the National-Radical Camp, has since its inception declared clearly hostile to communist ideas. This was not only due to national ideology, but besides to the perception of communism as a threat to the sovereignty of the Polish state and to social integrity. The book explores how these attitudes evolved in the context of political change, the increasing influence of the Communist organization of Poland and the global situation.

IPN has been publishing akin publications for years, focusing on documenting the past of social opposition to communism and relations between the state and national movement. The edition of the “Anticommunism of Nationalists” is part of this series, providing the first collection of origin extracts in Polish historiography focused exclusively on this subject. The publication can be useful not only for historians and political scientists, but besides for those curious in contemporary debates on the tradition of the national movement in Poland. The book sheds light on the historical basis of ideological disputes which inactive affect Polish politics and social life. Thanks to this publication, it is possible to realize both the political past of the Second Republic and the long-term consequences of anti-communist attitudes of nationalists.