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THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Vol. XXIII, No. 1 January 2003 Anthony Bukoski Hard Times, Gentle Dreams Anthony Bukoski. Photo courtesy of Anthony Bukoski Archives. 918 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW January 2003 The Sarmatian Review (ISSN 1059-5872) is From the Editor of Poland and of myself personally. a triannual publication of the Polish Institute of Houston. It is a pleasure to announce in this is- [Russia keeps cultivating] hostility to- The journal deals with Polish, Central, and Eastern Euro- sue that Anthony Bukoski, the author ward peoples who dare to fight for iden- pean affairs, exploring the subject of their implications tity and sovereignty. She says: we shall for the United States. We specialize in the translation of of Polonaise (reviewed in SR, XXII:3), documents. is the recipient of the 2002 Sarmatian tolerate you within our borders, but if Subscription price is $15.00 per year for individuals, $21.00 Review Literary Award. The descrip- you dare to rebel, we shall strangulate for institutions and libraries ($21.00 for individuals, $27.00 tion of the Award and Anthony you and shall cut your throats.” for libraries overseas, air mail). The views expressed by Halikowska-Smith’s article is one of the authors of articles do not necessarily represent those of the Bukoski’s response can be found on Editors or of the Polish Institute of Houston. Articles are p. 919. many proofs that Poles have moved on subject to editing. Unsolicited manuscripts and other mate- Teresa Halikowska-Smith’s article in that regard. rials are not returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed on recent Polish and German writers Professor Chodakiewicz’s review of and stamped envelope. Please submit your contribution a book on Francisco Franco’s policies electronically and send a printout by air mail. Letters and areas in Europe that experienced to the Editor can be e-mailed to <[email protected]>, forced population shifts indicates that toward East Central Europe reminds us with an accompanying printout (including return ad- Poles have risen to the task of acknowl- that the picture of Europe as drafted by dress) sent by air mail. Articles, letters, and subscription edging the suffering of Others—in this American political scientists is very checks should be mailed to case, of Germans expelled from west- constricted. Alongside the big armies The Sarmatian Review, P. O. Box 79119, Houston, and navies of Germany, Russia, Great Texas 77279-9119. ern Polish territories by the Great Pow- The Sarmatian Review retains the copyright for all materi- ers and obliged to leave their ancestral Britain, and France there have been als included in print and online issues. Copies for personal homes, just as Poles from the present- policies and developments whose role or educational use are permitted by section 107 and 108 of day Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine in birthing historical events remains the U.S. Copyright Law. Permission to redistribute, repub- unassessed to this day. lish, or use SR materials in advertising or promotion must were expelled by the Soviets after the be submitted in writing to the Editor. Second World War and obliged to Dr. Steven Clancy’s review of a trans- Editor: Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University). leave their ancestral homes. The dif- lation of Kochanowski’s Treny is a model Editorial Advisory Committee: Janusz A. Ihnatowicz (Uni- ference was of course that the Germans of sensitivity and precision with regard versity of Saint Thomas), Marek Kimmel (Rice Univer- to the original text and the translation. sity), Alex Kurczaba (University of Illinois), Marcus D. went to West Germany which soon be- Leuchter (Holocaust Museum Houston),Witold J. came independent, whereas the Poles We mention an abundance of books in Lukaszewski (Sam Houston State University), Michael J. were expelled to Soviet-occupied Po- BOOKS. Some of them deserve a MikoÊ (University of Wisconsin), Jan Rybicki (Kraków land and had to suffer there for forty- longer review, e.g., Professor Piotr Pedagogical University), James R. Thompson (Rice Uni- Eberhardt’s book on Russian demogra- versity), Tamara Trojanowska (University of five long years. Halikowska-Smith’s Toronto), Piotr Wilczek (University of Silesia-Katowice). article outlines with admirable preci- phy reviewed on p. 929. We would like Web Pages: Lisa Spiro (Rice University). sion the search for “traces” of other cul- to ask members of the humanities and Web Address: <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia>. tures in Gdaƒsk and the efforts of Pol- social science departments at English Sarmatian Council: Boguslaw Godlewski (Diag- language universities to drop us an nostic Clinic of Houston), Iga J. Henderson, Jo- ish writers to discover these traces. seph A. Jachimczyk (J .A. Jachimczyk Forensic Coincidentally, this editor has been email indicating their willingness to Center of Harris County, Texas), Leonard M. reading Polish historian Bohdan review books for us. We also welcome Krazynski (Honorary Polish Consul in Houston). Cywiƒski’s reports from Russia in reviewers from non-Anglophone uni- 1234567890123456 1234567890123456 Rzeczpospolita (November 30–De- versities if they can deliver in English. In this issue: cember 1, 2002). Cywiƒski writes of a Zofia PtaÊnik’s Diary has become a high school textbook of Russian his- staple in SR. This historical document SARMATIAN REVIEW INDEX..............919 tory he picked up in a Moscow book- does not yield itself easily to cuts (al- SARMATIAN REVIEW Literary Award .....921 store in November 2002. In the text- though we have done some, as indicated Teresa Halikowska-Smith, The past as pal- book, the partitions of Poland in the text), and it now appears that we impsest: the Gdaƒsk school of writers in the coengineered by Catherine the Great shall complete printing the Diary in 1980s and 1990s.......................................922 are described as “enlargement of the September 2003, in a total of six install- BOOKS....................................................928 ments. The published sections of the Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Las relaciones de western frontier.” The name of Poland Franco con Europa Centro-Oriental, 1939–1955 is not mentioned, and no ethical reflec- Diary have become a part of the website (review)............................................................931 tion accompanies this particularly hei- titled “The Forgotten Odyssey” Steven Clancy, Treny. The Laments of Jan nous and unprovoked aggression of (www.AForgottenOdyssey.com) docu- Kochanowski (review)...................................936 one state against another, of the kind menting the destruction of Polish life Zofia PtaÊnik, Death by a Thousand Cuts: A Pol- NATO was supposed to protect West- by the Soviets when they invaded Po- ish Woman’s Diary of Deportation, Forced La- ern Europe against. Remarks land on 17 September 1939 and de- bor and Death in Kazakhstan, April 13, 1940– Cywiƒski: ported or killed over a million Polish May 26, 1941, translated and edited by Leszek “A nation that offers such unreflective citizens in their efforts to affect an eth- Karpiƒski et al. (fourth installment).......... ......939 nic and ideological cleansing of their ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NOTES.....943 history textbooks to its youth and ABOUT THE AUTHORS......................943 praises conflicts between states in such newly acquired war bounty. ∆ a way has to be treated as an enemy January 2003 SARMATIAN REVIEW 919 The Sarmatian Review Index 9/11 Percentage of Catholics among the rescuers (firemen/women and policemen/women) who lost their lives in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001: 85–90 percent. Source: Several top officials at the NYPD and FDNY, as reported by Cathalyst: Journal of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, vol. 29/4 (September 2002), 1. Pedophilia Number of Catholic priests in the United States in 2002: 46,000. Number of Catholic priests accused of sexual misconduct and removed from priesthood in 2002: approximately 200, or 0.4 percent. Source: Cathalyst: Journal of the Catholic League for Religious and Civili Rights, no. 29/4 (September 2002), 5. Corresponding figures for the world: 400,000 priests, approximately 300 documented cases of pedophilia, or 0.075 percent. Source: Pope John Paul II in a sermon delivered on Holy Thursday at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, as reported by AFP (Warsaw), 28 March 2002; BBC News, 15 April 2002. Chechen killings Estimated number of Chechens killed by Russian troops daily: from 30 to 50 persons. Source: Groznyi University professor to Radosław Januszewski, as reported by Radosław Januszewski, “Îycie w piwnicy,” Rzeczpospolita (www.rzeczpospolita.pl), 22–23 June 2002. Age range at which any Chechen male can presently “disappear without a trace at any moment”: between 12 and 60 years of age. Source: Anne Nivat, “The Forgotten Chechens,” The Prague Post Online (www.praguepost.com/P02/2002/20828/opin1.php), 2 September 2002. Polish economics Percentage of GDP generated by the private sector in 2001: 70 percent. Percentage of labor force employed by the private sector in 2001: 72 percent. Source: OECD, as reported by AFP, 12 July 2002. Wealth of nations Russian foreign debt as of 1 April 2002: 128.3 billion dollars. Percentage of Russia’s government revenues generated by foreign sales of oil and gas: 40 percent. Source: Henry Meyer, “Russia slashes budget,” AFP, 7 August 2002. Polish population Increase in Polish population between the two censuses (1988 and 2002): 420,000 persons. Decline in Polish population between 1999–2002: 35,000 persons. The annual average birthrate in Poland between 1988–2002: 0.08 percent. Source: Tadeusz Toczyƒski, President of the Statistical Institute GUS (Główny Urzàd Statystyczny), as reported by AFP (Warsaw), 25 November 2002. Foreign investment in Russia Percentage decline of foreign direct investment in Russia in the first half of 2002: 25.4 percent. Dollar value of foreign direct investment in Russia in the first half of 2002: 1.9 billion dollars. Total volume of foreign direct investment in Russia and China: 8.4 billion and 29.5 billion dollars, respectively.