Wawrzyniak Veterans, Victims, and Memory

The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-3-653-99681-4
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Contemporary History

In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a 'mnemonic standoff' with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wawrzyniak, Joanna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lewis, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Communism, Myth and Memory – The Communist Post-war: Organizing Life and Memory – The Myth of Victory (1949–1955) – The Myth of Unity (1956–1959) – The Myth of Innocence (1960–1969) – Epilogue: The Long Shadow of the Communist Politics of Memory.

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Wawrzyniak is Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, where she also heads the Social Memory Laboratory. She has published extensively on the relationship between history and memory in Poland, the uses of oral history, and the current state of memory studies in Central-Eastern Europe. Recently she was a visiting fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena (Germany).