Poland's Memory Wars : : Essays on Illiberalism / / ed. by Jo Harper.

This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • Introduction: Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal?
  • PART I Essays on PiS
  • CHAPTER 1 NEVER MIND THE BOLEKS!
  • CHAPTER 2 PIS: THE END OF THE BEGINNING
  • CHAPTER 3 AUTHORITARIAN DRIVE IN POLAND
  • CHAPTER 4 THE TRIUMPH OF NATIONAL COMMUNISM
  • CHAPTER 5 POLISH RIGHT-WING POPULISM
  • CHAPTER 6 CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
  • CHAPTER 7 FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF KACZYŃSKI
  • PART II PiS’s Politics of History
  • CHAPTER 8 THE NEW ROMANTICS
  • CHAPTER 9 THE HISTORY MEN
  • CHAPTER 10 POLAND’S CULTURE OF COMMEMORATION
  • CHAPTER 11 POLAND’S THEATER OF DEATH
  • PART III PiS’s Politics of Normality
  • CHAPTER 12 THE QUEST FOR THE “NORMAL” FAMILY
  • CHAPTER 13 LGBTQ AND POLISH PATRIARCHY
  • CHAPTER 14 AN IDENTITY RESET
  • CONCLUSION
  • Part IV Interviews
  • HISTORY AS WE MAY WISH IT TO BE
  • 966 AND ALL THAT
  • THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME
  • HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
  • UNDERSTAND THE WAR, UNDERSTAND POLAND
  • DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX I: TIMELINE
  • APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX