Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2023!

We are pleased to share with you great news. Libra Institute, Inc. has just published a very important documentary entitled: The Katyń Operation 1939-1941; The struggle of American Polonia for Katyń Justice 2010-2020. 

In recognition of the significant contribution to the advancement of justice for the Katyn genocide by the participants and laureates of the Polonia Institute 2020 Competition on the History of Poland, Libra Institute is pleased to publish six award-winning papers from the 2020 Competition on the international significance of the denial of justice to the victims of Katyn. Congratulations to all authors whose essays on Katyn are published in the Katyn Operation 1939-1941!

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Children of the Borderlands” by Lucyna Kulinska Ph.D. is a collection of eyewitness accounts of the people who as children survived genocides perpetrated by Ukrainians on Polish population of four districts: Wolhynia, Tarnopol, Stanisławów, and Lwów. It was translated by Paweł Szymański and Jakub Zaraska. The poems were translated by Sister Jadwiga Szczechowicz of the Albertine Sisters. It was funded and published by Paweł Szymański in 2019. The original Polish version has four volumes. The English version is volume two of the series. It was arranged for the English speaking audience that may not be familiar with Polish history and the history of Polish borderlands. Therefore, it contains numerous footnotes which explain the background of these tragic events as well as the history of these districts. The book is richly illustrated with the pictures of the victims and perpetrators who were responsible for this genocide. There are name lists of Poles who were brutally murdered by Ukrainians. The book can be purchased directly from Paweł Szymański by writing to mysaurus@gmail.com or through eBay: https://www.ebay.com/p/25038694684?iid=153956568695 .
The cost of the book is $45 plus $6 shipping and handling. (The US orders only. Please ask for shipping rates for the international orders.)

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Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years.

“Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit,” Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience―in the China of “the Great Helmsman,” Kim Il Sung’s Korea, Vietnam under “Uncle Ho” and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin’s destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu’s leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao’s Red Guards.

As the death toll mounts―as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on―the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century.

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Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name. That is a grave mistake. Not only did the horrific results of Marxism follow directly from Marx’s twisted ideas, but the man himself penned some downright devilish things. Well before Karl Marx was writing about the hell of communism, he was writing about hell.

“Thus Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well,” he wrote in a poem in 1837, a decade before his Manifesto. “My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” That certainly seemed to be the perverse destiny for Marx’s ideology, which consigned to death over 100 million souls in the twentieth century alone.

No other theory in all of history has led to the deaths of so many innocents. How could the Father of Lies not be involved?

At long last, here, in this book by Professor Paul Kengor, is a close, careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the twentieth century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.

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Starting with basic Aristotelian principles, such as the relevance of cooperation and politics in human life, the significance of the virtues and character-formation for political actors, and the personal and communal resources of right action in politics, Ferenc Hörcher offers an evolutionary history of the concept of prudence. Moving on to incorporate the developments of the Roman and the Christian traditions, a contemporary conservative-republican political philosophy is built up. Special attention is given to the relevance of local customs and traditions as well as participation, compromise and moderation in political activity.

The book demonstrates that Aristotelian notions should be used to describe the actions and speeches of people active in politics, without losing sight of the normative dimension. In doing so, it presents an original argument which is both different from mainstream contemporary political philosophy and beneficial to our understanding of the role of practical reason in politics.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Prudence and conservatism
Part One: Prudence in history
1. Ancient and Christian traditions of prudence
2. Renaissance and early modern prudentia
3. Late modern prudentia
Conclusion of Part One
Part Two: Prudence in conservative philosophy
Preliminary remarks
4. Agency-constraint
5. Time-constraint
6. Knowledge-constraint
7. The prudent individual’s resources: Virtues and character
8. The prudent community’s resources: Tradition and political culture
9. How to find the proper action in politics
Summary: A conservative political philosophy of prudence
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Reviews

“Hörcher poses the catchy question, which has been examined by a number of major conservative thinkers of the past, including Nisbet, Kirk and others: is conservatism an ideology or is it not? … Hörcher’s book is a valuable piece added to the huge and magnificent mosaic, which helps to map the philosophical roots of conservatism.” –  Hungarian Review

“In this wise and timely book, Ferenc Hörcher calls for a new approach to politics based on the Aristotelian virtue of prudence. In contrast to forms of conservatism that aim at maximizing economic freedom or that buttress national ambitions with amoral realism, Hörcher’s conservatism focuses on the need for rulers and citizens to cultivate practical wisdom-a wisdom to be discovered above all in the study of history and the Western tradition of prudent statecraft. He urges the rebuilding of politics in a way that would restore a proper sense of the constraints imposed by our cultural traditions and by the human condition more generally. Required reading for anyone disturbed by the collapse of statesmanship in the contemporary world.” –  James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University, USA

Ferenc Hörcher is Head of the Research Institute of Politics and Government of the National University of Public Service, Hungary, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary. He is member of the editorial board of Politeja, Journal of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland and Hungarian Review.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-political-philosophy-of-conservatism-9781350067189/

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Siedem najlepszych polskich żołnierek. Walczyly za ojczyznę nawet w przebraniu i pomimo zakazów.

Walczyły z bronią w ręku jeszcze w czasach, gdy kobieta-żołnierz dla wielu była nie do pomyślenia. Potrafiły przezwyciężyć wszelkie przeszkody, by tylko znaleźć się na froncie. I udowadniały, że na równi z mężczyznami mogą bronić polskiej niepodległości.

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