World War II and two occupations : dilemmas of Polish memory

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 politi...

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Main Authors Wolff-Powęska, Anna, Forecki, Piotr, Skowrońska, Marta, Zahorjanova, Blanka
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Bern Peter Lang 2016
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Peter Lang Group
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition1
SeriesStudies 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
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ISBN9783631663004
3631663005
3653967082
9783653055337
3653967074
9783653967081
9783653967074
3653055334
DOI10.3726/978-3-653-05533-7

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Contents -- Introduction ([Anna Wolff-Powęska] [Piotr Forecki]) -- World War II as Collective Experience for Polish Society (Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski) -- Fighting for Victim Status: Polish Debates on Genocide and the Collective Memory of World War II (Lech M. Nijakowski) -- World War II in the Politics of Memory of the Polish People's Republic 1944-1970 (Bartosz Korzeniewski) -- The Unusual Everyday Under the Occupation (Paweł Rodak) -- Between Biographical Experience and Social Construction of Memory: The Oldest Generation of Poles on the Soviet Occupation and the Soviets (Anna Wylegała) -- Between Biographical and Collective Memory: The Experience of War in Narratives from the Kresy (Kaja Kaźmierska) -- War Trauma in the City Museums of Saint Petersburg, Warsaw and Dresden ([Zuzanna Bogumił] [Joanna Wawrzyniak]) -- The German Occupation of Poland in German and Polish History Schoolbooks (Katarzyna Woniak) -- The Representation of the Soviet Occupation in Polish Film (Tadeusz Lubelski) -- War Films After 1989. A Dialogue Among Three Generations (Małgorzata Hendrykowska) -- Why Does Theatre Need War? Why Do Historians Need Theatre? Images of War and the Subject of Occupation in Polish Theatre After 1945 (Joanna Krakowska) -- Żydokomuna: The Construction of the Insult (Anna Zawadzka) -- Information about the authors