Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Ochman, Ewa

ISBN 10: 0415658748 / ISBN 13: 9780415658744

Published by Routledge, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415658748
• ISBN 13: 9780415658744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy. The book outlines the detail of the new hegemonic national myths which are being established but also investigates fragmentation and diversification of commemorative practices at the local level that has the most potential to challenge the dominant vision of national Polish identity, historically centred on martyrdom, heroism and independence, as less relevant to Poland’s new aspirations for the future.

About the Author

Ewa Ochman is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Russian and east European Studies, University of Manchester, UK.