World War II and two occupations : dilemmas of Polish memory

• Main Authors: Wolff-Powęska, Anna, Forecki, Piotr, Skowrońska, Marta, Zahorjanova, Blanka
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang 2016; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers; Peter Lang Group; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in History, Memory and Politics
• Subjects: Anna; biographical experience; Collective memory; Collective memory > Poland; Communication studies; Dilemmas; European history; Forecki; Group identity; Group identity > Poland; historical narrative; Historiography; HISTORY; History and Archaeology; Interdisciplinary studies; Language Arts; Memory; Memory > Political aspects > Poland; Memory > Social aspects > Poland; Nonfiction; Occupation, 1939-1945; Occupations; Piotr; Poland; Poland > History > 1945-1980 > Historiography; Poland > History > 1980-1989 > Historiography; Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945 > Historiography; Poland > Intellectual life > 20th century; Polish; politics of memory; Powęska; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology; Wolff; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Historiography; World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Poland
• ISBN: 9783631663004; 3631663005; 3653967082; 9783653055337; 3653967074; 9783653967081; 9783653967074; 3653055334
• DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-05533-7

This anthology presents the work of several authors from different academic disciplines. Film and literature experts, sociologists, historians and theatrologists analyse the Polish memory of the Nazi and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish collective identity. Before the political turn of 1989, the memory of World War II was strictly controlled by the state. The elements of memory related to the Soviet occupation were eradicated, as well as any other elements that did not fit the official narrative about the war. Unblocking the hitherto limited public discourse resulted in the process of filling the blank pages of history and the development of different and frequently conflicting communities of memory.